Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon: 15 (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis, Series Number 15) - Softcover

Hisama, Ellie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521028434 ISBN 13: 9780521028431

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book explores the work of three significant American women composers of the twentieth century: Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer and Miriam Gideon. It offers a unique approach to a rich body of music that deserves theoretical scrutiny and provides information on both the lives and music of these fascinating women, skilfully interweaving history and musical analysis in ways that both the specialist and the more general reader will find compelling. In this important study, Ellie Hisama has employed forms of analysis by which she links musical characteristics with aspects of the composers' identities. This is revealing both for questions of music and gender and the continuing search for meaning in music. The book thus draws attention to the value of the music of these three composers and contributes to the body of analytical work concerned with the explanation of musical language.

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About the Author

Ellie M. Hisama is Associate Professor of Music at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York and is Director of the Institute for Studies in American Music at Brooklyn College.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521028434
• ISBN 13: 9780521028431
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220