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Women and Music: A History. Edited by Karin Pendle. 2d ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. [x, 514 p. ISBN 0-253-33819-0. $59.95 (cloth); ISBN 0-252-21422-x. $24.95 (pbk.).]
A second edition of Karin Pendle's anthology on the history of women in music is welcome. Its primary emphasis continues to be on women composers in Western art music. Most of the eleven chapters on concert music have been rewritten to very good effect. Some are more than doubled in length, making the coverage of this area more thorough as well as more consistent. The rest of the essays (now five of the sixteen chapters, up from four) are on popular music, jazz, and world music. ...