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Music and Gender. Edited by Pirkko Moisala and Beverley Diaraond. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. [xiii, 376 p. ISBN 0-252-06865-3. $24.95.]

From Ellen Koskoff's pithy foreword to Marcia Herndon's posthumous epilogue, this collection contains sixteen thoughtful, well-written essays that explore much more than the relationship between music and gender in culture.

When encountering a new collection of essays, my first response is often to discern why the editors have decided to produce the book. Tenure needs aside, what are the intellectual reasons the essays have been bound together rather than appearing as individual contributions ...

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