Gendering Musical Modernism The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon

Name: Gendering Musical Modernism The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon
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ISBN: 9780521640305

ISBN-10: 052164030X

ISBN-13: 9780521640305

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ellie M. Hisama, Ian Bent

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Exploring the work of three significant American women composers of the 20th century (Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer and Miriam Gideon), this book provides information on their lives and music, interweaving history and musical analysis.

Book details

List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/22/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 220
Size: 7.01" wide x 9.96" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Ellie M. Hisama is professor of music at Columbia University.



List of figures


List of tables


List of examples


Foreword



Acknowledgments


List of abbreviations


Note about technical terms



Cultural analysis and post-tonal music



The question of climax in Ruth Crawford's String Quartet, third movement



Inscribing identities in Crawford's String Quartet, fourth movement



The politics of contour in Crawford's 'Chinaman, Laundryman'



Gender, sexuality, and performance in Marion Bauer's Toccata



Musical sublimation in Bauer's 'Chromaticon'



'A Woman's Way of Responding to the World': Miriam Gideon's 'Night is My Sister'



Feminist agency in Gideon's 'Esther'


Epilogue


Bibliography


Index