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Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon. (Musical Women).

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Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon. (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis.) By Ellie M. Hisama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. [xix, 198 p. ISBN 0-521-64030-X. $59.95.]

In this provocative study, Ellie M. Hisama analyzes six works by three women composers with an eye toward the ways in which each piece reflects the feminine subjectivity of its author. She adopts standard techniques of post-tonal analysis to argue "that formalist readings acknowledging the impact of a composer's gender and political views on the work itself impart valuable ways of hearing and apprehending these ...

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