Musicology and Difference : Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship

Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from twelfth-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. Musicology and Difference brings together some of the freshest and most challenging voices in musicology today on a question of importance to all the humanistic disciplines.

CONTENIDO:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: "On Difference" (Ruth A. Solie)

- Systems of Difference
Gender and Other Dualities of Musci History (Leo Treitler)
Difference and Power in Music (John Shepherd)
Loving It: Music and Criticism in Roland Barthes (Barbara Engh)

- Cultural COntext of Difference
Charles Ives and Gender Ideology (Judith Tick)
The Ethnomusicologist as Midwife (Carol E. Robertson)
Women as Musicians: A Question of Class (Nancy B. Reich)

- Interpretative Strategies
Miriam Sings Her Songs: The Self and the Other in Anthropological Discourse (Ellen Koskoff)
Lesbian Fuge: Ethel Smyth's Contrapuntal Arts (Elizabeth Wood)
Reading as an Opera Queen (Mitchell Morris)
Schwarze Gredel and the Engendered Minor Mode in Mozart's Operas (Gretchen A. Wheelock)

- Critical Readings
Opera; or, the Envoicing of Women (Carolyn Abbate)
Britten's Dream (Philip Brett)
Of Women, Music, and Power: A Model for Seicento Florence (Suzanne G. Cusick)
Carnaval, Cross-Dressing, and the Women in teh Mirror (Lawrence Kramer)
Narrative Agendas in "Absolute" Music: Identity and Difference in Brahms's Third Symphony (Susan McClary)

Contributors
Index