Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music

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University of Illinois Press, 1994 - Music - 241 pages
"Cecilia, a fifteenth-century Christian martyr, has long been considered the patron saint of music. In this pathbreaking volume, ten of the best-known scholars in the newly emerging field of feminist musicology explore both how gender has helped shape genres and works of music and how music has contributed to prevailing notions of gender"--Back cover.

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Feminist Approaches to Musicology
15
Erasing the Boundaries between Public and Private
35
Music and the English Renaissance Controversy
52
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