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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"women in music"”.
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Cuban Women in Music: a Case Study of Ernestina Lecuona
Cuba, with only a short history as an independent nation, was under Spain’s control for over five hundred years. As an exporter of sugar and agricultural products, Spain brought to the island African slave laborers, and Cuba has since emerged a land with mixed races and a diversity of cultures. …
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The Role of Women in Music in Nineteenth-Century Dublin
During the nineteenth century the position of women in music grew throughout Europe, and Ireland was no exception. In Dublin, women went from participating in the city's musical culture as performers to participating as teachers, composers, organisers, performers and writers. In the first half of …
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Re-Composing Feminism: Australian women composers in the new millennium
In the age of postfeminism and fourth-wave feminism online, Australian women composers are theoretically able to “have it all,” however, the proportion of women in the occupation appears to have plateaued in recent years. In this thesis, I explore the multiple ways in which gender and feminism …
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Female subjectivity and agency in popular Mexican corridos (Ballads): an examiniation of images and representations of soldaderas (female soldiers) in the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920
The purpose of the study is to examine the paradox of female subjection and agency in the images and representations of women in Mexican popular culture. This study proposes to explore the " intersectionality" (Collins 1998) of gender, race, and class in female subjectivity and agency, during the …
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Not Just a Pretty Voice: Cathy Berberian as Collaborator, Composer and Creator
<p>During her relatively brief career, Cathy Berberian: 1925-83) became arguably the best-known singer of avant-garde vocal music in Europe and the United States. After 1950, when she married Italian composer Luciano Berio, Berberian premiered almost thirty new works by seventeen different …