Women in music - books

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

Barnes, Edwin N. C. American Women in Creative Music. Washington: Music
Education Publications, 1936.

Bowers, Jane and Judith Tick, eds. Women Making Music: The Western Art
Tradition, 1150 - 1950.  Chicago:  University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Drinker, Sophie H. Music and Women: The Story of Women and Their Relation
to Music. Washington, DC. 1948, 1977.

Hixon, Don L. and Don A. Hennessee. Women in Music. Metuchen, NJ: 
Scarecrow Press, 1993. 1849 pgs.

Keeling, R. ed. Women in North American Music: six essays. Bloomington, IN:
The Society for Ethnomusicology, 1989.

Laurence, Anya. Women of Notes: One Thousand Women Composers before 1900.
New York: Richards Rosen Press, 1978.

Le Page, Jane Weiner.  Women Composers, Conductors and Musicians of the
Twentieth Century, 3 vol. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1983, 
1988.

Richardson, Laurel and Verta Taylor, eds. Feminist Frontiers: rethinking
sex, gender and society. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley Pub., 1983.

Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop and Rap. Ann Powers and 
Evelyn McDonnell, eds. NY: Dell Books, 1995

Stern, Susan. Women Composers: A Handbook. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow
Press, 1978.

Williams, Ora. American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences. 
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994.

Women Composers: Music through the Ages. Ed. by Martha Furman Schleifer 
and Sylvia Glickman. (planned 12 vols, 1995-1999). Vol 1: Composers born 
before 1600; (2/96). Vol. 2: Composers born between 1600 and 1699; (3/96). 
Vols. 3, 4, 5: Coposers born between 1700 and 1799, (projected fall, 1996).


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