Society for Music Theory

Committee on the Status of Women

Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies,
Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music



Basic Resources:

Historical Texts/Sources


Ammer, Christine. Unsung: A History of Women in American Music. Westport: Greenwood, 1980.

Baldauf-Berdes, Jane L. Women Musicians of Venice. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Bogin, Meg. The Women Troubadours. New York: Norton, 1980.

Bowers, Jane and Judith Tick, eds. Women Making Music : The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. [cf. book reviews]

Cohen, Aaron I., ed. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. 2nd ed. Westport: Greenwood, 1987. [cf. book reviews]

Drinker, Sophie Hutchinson, 1888-1968. Music and women: The Story of Women in their Relation to Music. New York: Coward-McCann, 1948; reprint, Zenger Publishing Company, 1977; reprint, with a Preface by Elizabeth Wood, and Afterword by Ruth A. Solie. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1995. [Drinker, Solie, Wood]

Ebel, Otto. Women Composers: A Biographical Handbook of Woman's Work in Music. New York: F.H. Chandler, 1902.

Elson, Arthur. Woman's Work in Music. Boston, 1904.

Fuller, Sophie. The Pandora Guide to Women Composers: Britain and the United States 1629- present. London; San Francisco: Pandora, 1994.

Green, Mildred Denby. Black Women Composers: A Genesis. Boston: Twayne, 1983.

Hixon, Don L. and Don A. Hennessee. Women in Music: An Encyclopedic Biobibliography(2 vols.), 2nd. ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1993.

Jezic, Diane Peacock. Women composers: The Lost Tradition Found. With a Foreword by Elizabeth Wood. New York: Feminist Press, 1988; 2nd ed. prepared by Elizabeth Wood. New York: The Feminist Press, 1994.

LePage, Jane Weiner. Women Composers, Conductors and Musicians of the Twentieth Century: Selected Biographies. 3 volumes. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1980, 1983, 1985.

Loesser, Arthur. Men, Women and Pianos. London: Victor Gollancz, 1955.

Neuls-Bates, Carol, ed. Women in Music: An Anthology of Source Readings from the Middle Ages to the Present. Rev. ed, Northeastern University Press, 1996. [cf. book reviews]

Pendle, Karin, ed. Women & Music: A History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. [cf. book reviews]

Includes:

        Michelini, Ann N. "Women and Music in Greece and Rome." 3-7

        Edwards, J. Michele. "Women in Music to ca. 1450." 8-28.

        Pendle, Karin. "Women in Music, ca. 1450-1600." 31-53

        Jackson, Barbara Garvey. "Musical Women of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries." 54-94.

        Reich, Nancy B. "European Composers and Musicians, ca. 1800-1890."

        Citron, Marica J. "European Composers and Musicians, 1880-1918."

        Block, Adrienne Fried, assisted by Nancy Stewart. "Women in American Music, 1800-1918." 142-172.

        Roma, Catherine. "Contemporary British composers."

        Zierolf, Robert. "Composers of Modern Europe, Australia, and New Zealand." 187-207.

        Edwards, J. Michele, with contributions by Leslie Lassetter. "North America since 1920."

        Hoke, S. Kay. "American Popular Music." 258-281.

        Budds, Michael J. "African-American Women in Blues and Jazz."

        Whitesitt, Linda. "Women's Support and Encouragement of Music and Musicians." 301-313.

        Jones, L. JaFran. "Women in Non-Western Music." 314-330

        Cox, Renee. "Recovering Jouissance: An Introduction to Feminist Musical Aesthetics."

Sadie, Julie Anne & Rhian Samuel, eds. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. New York; London: W.W. Norton, 1994.

Schleifer, Martha Furman and Sylvia Glickman. Women Composers: Music through the Ages. Vols. I and II. New York: G. K. Hall, 1996.

Tick, Judith. American Women Composers Before 1870. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1983.

Upton, George P. Woman in Music. Sixth Ed. Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1899.

Zaimont, Judith Lang, ed. The Musical Woman: An International Perspective. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1984, 1984, 1991 (three volumes).

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