The Routledge Handbook of Women's Work in Music

Editor's Introduction

Part I: Challenging Gender Inequalities






Sophie Fuller, Grace, Betty, Maude and Me: 30 Years of Fighting for Women Composers



Susan Wollenberg, 'Where Are We Now?': Teaching and Studying Women Composers post-Citron



Helen Elizabeth Davies, 'Because I'm a Girl': Exploring Experiences, Practices and Challenges Relating to Gender and Sexuality for Female Musicians in Popular Music Higher Education



Emily Doolittle, Composer, Mother



Stephen Wilford, 'The Algerian woman is very strong': Music, Identity and Gender in Algerian London



Valentine Harding, In Search of the Field: Reflections on an Ethnomusicological Project in India



Christina Homer, Women's Work in Ethnomusicology: Alternative Spaces
Part II: (Re)Discoveries




Zaina Shihabi, A Brief Historical and Sociological Examination of Twentieth-Century Arab Women Composers and Performers in Egypt



Sally Macarthur, The Rise and Rise of Women in Australian Composition



Susan Clauson-Elliott, Women Composers and the Proms: The First 100 Years (1895-1994)



Claudia Chibici-Revneanu, Chasing Maria Teresa Lara: An Autoethnographic Account of Trying to Recuperate the Story of a 'Lost' Woman Composer



Joanna Schiller-Rydzewska, The Artistic Path and Achievement of Polish Composer Ewa Synowiec



Eva M. Maschke, Composer, Performer, Teacher: Jeanne Barbillion (1895-1992) and the Schola Cantorum de Paris



Elisabeth Honn Hoegberg, How Theocritus Sang: Eleanor Everest Freer's Sonnets from the Portuguese



Rhian Davies, A Life in Fragments: Morfydd Owen (1891-1918)
Part III: Aesthetics and Music Creation




Rebecka Sofia Ahvenniemi, Overcoming the 'Male Gaze' of Music: Towards Renewed Compositional Strategies



Isabel Nogueira, Voices, Sounds and Herstories: Constructing Feminist Research in Experimental Music



Angela Elizabeth Slater, Invisible Canons: A Reflective Commentary on the Formation of my Personal Canon of Women Composers



Lucy Hollingworth, Storytelling in Autoethnography - The Poetess



J. Michele Edwards, Chen Yi: Trauma, Myths, and Representation



Laura Dallman, Considering Autonomy and Collaboration in Three Concerti by Jennifer Higdon



Ji Yeon Lee, Decoding the Riddle: The Tea-Party Scene in Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland



David Forrest, Kate Bush's Uncanny Harmonic Language
Part IV: Performance and Reception




Bella Powell, Notions of Virtuosity, Female Accomplishment, and the Violin as Forbidden Instrument in Early-Mid Nineteenth-Century England



Nuppu Koivisto, Visitors from 'the Merry Town by the Danube': Viennese Ladies' Orchestras, Public Image and Variety Shows in Finland from 1870 to 1914



Maren Bagge, Women Song Composers and the London Ballad Concerts



Ivette Janet Cespedes Gomez, Sara Gonzales: A Different Song About Women



Grace Takyi Donkor, Changing Roles of Women in the Gospel Music Performance Space in Ghana



Maree Sheehan, Maori Women at the Forefront of Aotearoa/New Zealand Music in the Mid 1980s and Early 1990s



Li-ming Pan, The Stereotypical Image and Body Representation of Taiwanese Female Musicians
Part V: Opportunities and Leadership in the Music Professions




Jessica Duchen, Climb Every Mountain



Edwina Wolstencroft, Celebrating Women Composers on BBC Radio 3



Miia Laine, Contested Spaces: Gender Dynamics in Independent Radio Stations in London



Karlyn King, 'And her voice is a backwards record': The Gendering of Phonograph Technology



Carolyn Watson, Cracks in the Glass Ceiling: Women Conductors, New Trends, Old Challenges



Frances Novillo, Personal Reflections on Professional Experience of Women's Liturgical Leadership as Musicians in the Roman Catholic Church



Gabriela Sanchez Diaz, Re-Mapping and Connecting Bodies of Women Musicians
Part VI: New Perspectives on Women's Work in Music




Yuemin He, Materiality, Editorship and Canonisation in Wang Duanshu's Collection of Elegance (1667)



Jennifer Cable, Mary Carlisle Howe (1882-1964) and Adella Prentiss Hughes (1869-1950): Creating an Arts Culture in America, One Woman at a Time



Elina G. Hamilton, Louise Hanson-Dyer (1884-1962): Patroness of Music Publishing



Lia Lonnert and Helen Davies Mikkelborg, Lady Llanover and the Swedish Connection: A Welsh Musical Legacy



Jessica Beck, The Women Musicians of the British Ethical Movement, 1887-1927



Kirstie Alison Muldoon, The Role of Women in Irish Music Institutions in the Early Twentieth Century



Helen C. Thomas, The Beedle-Carter Correspondence: An Analysis of the Cultural Work Undertaken by Maureen Beedle to Promote Elliott Carter's Music in the UK and Europe