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Women and Music in Ireland

Women and Music in Ireland

Watson, Laura
Beausang, Ita
O'Connor-Madsen, Jennifer

Hardcover

Series: Irish Musical Studies, Book 13

Classical MusicCountry & FolkMusic Reference

ISBN10: 1783277556
ISBN13: 9781783277551
Publisher: Boydell Pr
Published: Dec 13 2022
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Explores the world of women's professional and amateur musical activity as it developed on and beyond the island of Ireland.

In a story which spans several centuries, the book highlights representative composers and performers in classical music, Irish traditional music, and contemporary art music whose contributions have been marginalised in music narratives. As well as investigating the careers of public figures, this edited collection brings attention to women who engaged with and taught music in a variety of domestic settings. It also shines a spotlight on women who worked behind the scenes to build infrastructures such as festivals and educational institutions which remain at the heart of the country's musical life today. The book addresses and reconsiders ideas about the intersections of music, gender, and Irish society, including how the national emblem of the harp became recast as a symbol of Irish womanhood in the twentieth century.

The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 surveys women musicians in Irish society of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Part 2 discusses women and practice in Irish traditional music. Part 3 studies gaps and gender politics in the history of twentieth-century women composers and performers. Part 4 situates discourses of women, gender, and music in the twenty-first century. The book's contributors encompass musicologists, cultural historians, composers, and performers.

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