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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"women musicians"”.
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The instrumental music of British Women Composers in the Early Twentieth Century
… detail on instrumental chamber music produced by women in the early twentieth century, a particularly fertile and under-represented period with regard to this topic and it draws on aspects of women’s history, British music history and feminist musicology. It argues that the Cobbett competitions …
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An exploration of the gender and sexual dynamics for women performers in the Cape Town jazz community
… the dynamics of gender, sexuality and power for women performers within the jazz community in Cape Town. Although the history and development of South African jazz has been extensively researched, very few texts mention the presence and impact of women performers and has yet to include how …
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The Protest Song: Bridge Leadership, Sonic Innovation, And The Long Civil Rights Movement
… genius. “The Protest Song” contends that women across the color line were pioneering new types of lyrical expressions, musical aesthetics, and performance practices that sought to articulate feminist identities inside the long black freedom movement, harnessing the power of music to push …
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The Reception of Women Pianists in London, 1950-60
This study investigates the reception of women pianists in London in the decade 1950-60, based on reviews published in three music journals, Music and Musicians, Musical Opinion, The Musical Times, and one national daily newspaper, The Times. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, women …
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Denigrata Cervorum: interpretive performance autoethnography and female black metal performance
… matters. Growing up there were only two women in famous metal bands that I would have considered role models; Jo Bench from Bolt Thrower (UK) and Sean Ysseult from White Zombie (US). This lack or under-representation of women in metal was always obvious to me and has stayed with me as I …
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Cultural intimacies of Irish country music: dancing, performance, and aesthetics
This thesis identifies and examines the music and dance phenomenon of Irish Country music, specifically in the Western counties of Ulster. Using ethnographic data it considers the processes allowing an individual to take part, the experiences of the professionals involved, and the aesthetics of the …
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Women drummers, forbidden drums: Obiní Batá negotiates a taboo
Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.