Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship

by Ruth A. Solie

Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from twelfth-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. Musicology and Difference brings together some of the freshest and most challenging voices in musicology today on a question of importance to all the humanistic disciplines.

Genres: Music, Feminism, Nonfiction, Sexuality

368 pages, Paperback

First published August 25, 1993

Reviews

[kacey · Rating 5 out of 5]

highlights: Barbara Engh, Judith Tick, Ellen Koskoff, Elizabeth Wood, Mitchell Morris, Carolyn Abbate, Philip Brett, and Suzanne G. Cusick.

[Leia Deva · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some essays were good but others were too autobiographical or contextual...

I felt that there are more pressing instances which significantly implicated gender roles in the Music world - e.g. travesti in opera - and in general, an essential perspective was lost when Musical Theatre on a whole was left out :(