Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919-1939

ISBN-13: 9780367590697 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 218 str.

Laura Hamer

Opis

Drawing upon extensive archival research, interview material and musical analysis, Laura Hamer presents an innovative study of women working as professional musicians in France between the two World Wars. Hamer positions the activities, achievements and reception of women composers, conductors and performers against a contemporary socio-politica

Spis treści

List of Music Examples.

Preface and Acknowledgements.

List of Abbreviations.

Part 1:The Contested Boundaries of Interwar musiciennes.

Chapter 1: Conservative Politics and Domestic Ideals: The Social Position of musiciennes in Interwar France.

Chapter 2:The Challenge of Professional musiciennes: The Education, Career Opportunities, and Reception of Women Musicians.

Part 2: Women as Composers.

Chapter 3: Early Female Winners of the Prix de Rome: Marguerite Canal and Jeanne Leleu.

Chapter 4: In Les Six: The Case of Germaine Tailleferre.

Chapter 5: Paul Dukas’s Female Composition Students: Elsa Barraine, Yvonne Desportes, and Claude Arrieu.

Part 3: Women as Performers.

Chapter 6:Women Conductors and All-Woman Orchestras.

Chapter 7: On the Concert Platform: Women as Perfomers.

Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Bibliography.

Index.

O autorze

Laura Hamer is Associate Professor of Music at Liverpool Hope University. She is interested in women in music, nineteenth- and earlier twentieth-century music, and criticism and reception studies. She is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 (forthcoming).