Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship

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Ruth A. Solie
University of California Press, 1993 - Music - 355 pages
Gender and other dualities of music history -- Difference and power in music -- Loving it : music and criticism in Roland Barthes -- Charles Ives and gender ideology -- Ethnomusicologist as midwife -- Women as musicians : a question of class -- Miriam sings her song -- Lesbian fugue -- Reading as an opera queen -- Schwarze Gredel and the engendered minor mode in Mozart's operas -- Opera -- Britten's dream -- Of women, music, and power : a model from Seicento Florence -- Carnaval, cross-dressing, and the woman in the mirror -- Narrative agendas in "absolute" music : identity and difference in Brahms's Third Symphony.
 

Contents

Gender and Other Dualities of Music History
23
Difference and Power in Music
46
Barbara Engh
66
Charles Ives and Gender Ideology
83
The Ethnomusicologist as Midwife
107
A Question of Class
125
Elizabeth Wood
164
Reading as an Opera Queen
184
Schwarze Gredel and the Engendered Minor Mode in Mozarts Operas
201
Opera or the Envoicing of Women
225
Brittens Dream
259
Suzanne G Cusick
281
Carnaval CrossDressing and the Woman in the Mirror
305
CONTRIBUTORS 1
345
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Ruth A. Solie is Professor of Music at Smith College.

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