![]() An introduction to each chapter gives an historical overview of women's contributions to that form of music. The dictionary is divided into ten music categories and profiles are alphabetically arranged within each category. Grattan takes pains to profile the famous, the unsung, and those who persevered through sheer tenacity and against all odds. A history of women's contribution to the creation of American popular song emerges through these profiles. This volume provides hard-to-find biographical and career information across the broad spectrum of indigenous American popular song. Many African-American and contemporary songwriter/performers such as Madonna, Janet Jackson, and Mariah Carey are included. The first biographical dictionary devoted to American women songwriters, this work profiles 181 well-known and little-known women who have written popular and motion picture songs, musicals, country, blues, jazz, folk, gospel, and hymns. Grattan Although American women have written many of our most memorable popular songs, their contributions have received little recognition. A preface, an introductory historical overview, a chronology, a guide to related topics, a list of contributors, a general bibliography, and an index help to present the full spectrum of American women who changed the face of music in the 1900s.Īmerican Women Songwriters by Virginia L. Each entry concludes with a short list of further readings. Included individuals must also have been born in, been a resident of, or made most of her contributions in the U.S. The significance of an individual's contribution, rather than their popularity, determined who was featured in this collection. Entries cover such material as, important individuals, biographical overviews, gender issues, education, music genres, honors and awards, organizations, and professions. ![]() This two volume, A-to-Z encyclopedia represents the first major effort to describe the role of women in all forms of music in the U.S. Other works may be strictly biographical or cover only one type of musician. Burns, Editor The 20th century heard a rich sound coming from America: women making music. Women and Music in America since 1900 by Kristine H. Here you can read about the Medieval mystic Hildgard von Bingen, the Renaissance madrigalist Maddalena Casulana, the flamboyant seventeenth-century vocal composer Barbara Strozzi, the prolific New Englander Amy Beach, and the Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. In signed articles, the Dictionary chronicles the lives and works of women composers from all corners of the world. This definitive source provides detailed biographies of more than 1,000 creators of Western classical music. Even with the present-day increase in their number, women composers have largely failed to draw the attention of the public.In recognition of these nearly invisible yet greatly talented musicians, Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel have brought together an international corps of experts to produce The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. The Norton-Grove Dictionary of Woman Composers by Julie Anne Sadie Rhian Samuel The few in earlier times who gained some renown were as often as not the sisters, daughters, wives, or muses of well-known men-the surnames of Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann speak for themselves.
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