Women and Music: A History

by Karin Pendle (Editor)

This updated, expanded, and reorganized edition of Women and Music features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women and Music is enlightening for scholars, a good source of programming ideas for performers, and a pleasure for other music lovers.

Genres: Music, History, Nonfiction

528 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1991

Reviews

[Alex Stephenson]

Certainly more of a reference book than a consistent narrative, but super useful for what it is and a great launching-off point to countless different female musicians (mainly in the Western classical tradition, though other genres and regions get passing mentions towards the end).