Music and Women: The Story of Women in Their Relation to Music (The Diane Peacock Jezic Series of Women in Music)
By Sophie Drinker.
Description
Music and Women provides an unparalleled compendium of information about women's relationship to music and a powerful theoretical model for reconceptualizing this relationship. Author Sophie Drinker was an amateur performer and collector fully steeped in the traditions of Western (male) art music who wondered, almost seventy years ago, "Why do [women] allow themselves to be merely the carriers of the creative musical imagination of men? Why do they not use the language of music, as they use gesture and speech, to communicate their own ideas and feelings?"For answers, Drinker ...
ISBN(s)
1558611169, 9781558611160
