Gender, Musicology, and Feminism
Suzamne G, Cusick
I. Gender and Musicology
Present at the Origin
to explain the relationship between gender and musicology, to
ist scholarship
‘music warrants the serious attention of all readers interested in ‘tethink-
sic’ as the twentieth century draws to a
begin by arguing that gender had been intrinsic to the practice of music
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