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- Linda Kouvaras
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, Southbank, VIC, Australia
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- Maria Grenfell
School of Creative Arts and Media, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Natalie Williams
School of Music, Art, and Theatre, North Park University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Highlighting the contexts in which music by women is written & performed
- Offers a plethora of distinct and highly invested perspectives on women.
- Explains the range of topics within current feminist thinking
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Part I: Creative Work – Then and Now illuminates historical and present-day women’s composition and various iterations and conceptions of the “feminine voice”;Part II: The State of the Industry in the Present Dayprovides solutions from the frontline to sector inequities; andPart III: Creating; Collaborating: Composer and Performer Reflectionsoffers personal stories of current creation in music.
A Century of Composition by Women: Music Against the Odds draws together topical issues in feminist musicology over the past century. This volume provides insight into the professional and compositional procedures of creative women in music and stands to be relevant for composers, performers, industry professionals, students, and feminist and musicological scholars for many years to come.Similar content being viewed by others
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
Front Matter
Pages i-xxxiComposing Women’s (Very) Long 100-Year Fight: Evolutions, Illuminations, Solutions
- Linda Kouvaras
Pages 1-23Creative Work: Then and Now
Front Matter
Pages 25-25Synaesthetic Associations and Gendered Nature Imagery: Female Agency in the Piano Music of Amy Beach
- Sabrina Clarke
Pages 27-51“Conjuring Up the Magic”: Helen Gifford’s Compositional Passage to the Creation ofFable for Solo Harp
- Jacinta Dennett
Pages 115-141Beyond Exploitation: Feminist Satire in Jennifer Walshe’sXXX_LIVE_NUDE_GIRLS!!!
- Jaslyn Robertson
Pages 157-170
The State of the Industry in the Present Day
Front Matter
Pages 207-207“Dear Women Composers in Australia (and Beyond)”: (A Letter from a Music Critic)
- Rosalind Appleby
Pages 209-223Programming Orchestral Repertoire by Women Composers: Challenges and Opportunity
- Joanna Drimatis
Pages 225-246Troubleshooting Gender in the Australian Screen Music Industry: An Insider Perspective
- Felicity Wilcox
Pages 247-262Content Targets Work: A Practical Example of Changing Behaviours and Processes in Programming Women Composers
- Naomi Johnson, Matthew Dewey
Pages 291-306
Editors and Affiliations
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, Southbank, VIC, Australia
Linda Kouvaras
School of Creative Arts and Media, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Maria Grenfell
School of Music, Art, and Theatre, North Park University, Chicago, IL, USA
Natalie Williams
About the editors
Dr Maria Grenfell is a composer and academic living in Hobart, Tasmania. An Associate Professor at the University of Tasmania, she is widely commissioned by orchestras and chamber ensembles in Australia, New Zealand, and internationally, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
Dr Natalie Williams is a composer, academic and artistic manager. Her music has been commissioned and performed in Australia, the United States and Europe. A performing arts leader, she has worked as an academicdean and also held faculty positions in music theory and composition at the University of Georgia and the Australian National University.
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Book Title:A Century of Composition by Women
Book Subtitle:Music Against the Odds
Editors:Linda Kouvaras, Maria Grenfell, Natalie Williams
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95557-1
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages:Literature, Cultural and Media Studies,Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information:The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN:978-3-030-95556-4Published: 02 August 2022
Softcover ISBN:978-3-030-95559-5Published: 03 August 2023
eBook ISBN:978-3-030-95557-1Published: 01 August 2022
Edition Number:1
Number of Pages:XXXI, 437
Number of Illustrations:2 illustrations in colour