Gendering Musical Modernism
The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon
- Author: Hisama, Ellie M.
This important and provocative study should suggest new paths for feminist analysis —
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Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of examples
- Foreword Ian Bent
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Note about technical terms
- 1. Cultural analysis and post-tonal music
- 2. The question of climax in Ruth Crawford's String Quartet, third movement
- 3. Inscribing identities in Crawford's String Quartet, fourth movement
- 4. The politics of contour in Crawford's 'Chinaman, Laundryman'
- 5. Gender, sexuality, and performance in Marion Bauer's Toccata
- 6. Musical sublimation in Bauer's 'Chromaticon'
- 7. 'A Woman's Way of Responding to the World': Miriam Gideon's 'Night is My Sister'
- 8. Feminist agency in Gideon's 'Esther'
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.