Gender and Music Theory

 

 

Required Readings

 

Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, "Of Poetics and Poiesis, Pleasure and Politics-Music Theory and Modes of the Feminine." Perspectives of New Music 32/1 (Winter, 1994): 44-678.

 

Fred Everett Maus, “Masculinist Discourse in Music Theory.” Perspectives of New Music 31/2 (Summer, 1994): 264–93.

 

Amy Bauer and Beate Kuschke, „Analyse und Gender.“ (Engl trans.) In Handbuch Musikalische Analyse, edit. Oliver Schwab-Felisch, Jan Philipp Sprick, and Christian Thora (Heidelberg/Berlin: Springer, 2022)

 

Suggested Readings

 

Susan McClary, “Excess and Frame: The Musical Representation of Madwomen.” In Feminine Endings: Music, Gender and Sexuality (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991), 80–111.

 

Susan McClary, "Paradigm Dissonances: Music Theory, Cultural Studies, Feminist Criticism.” Perspectives of New Music 32/1 (Winter, 1994):, 68-85.

 

Fred Everett Maus, "The Disciplined Subject of Musical Analysis." In Beyond Structural Listening? Postmodern Modes of Hearing, ed. Andrew Dell”Antonio, (Berkeley: University of California Press), pp. 13–43.

 

Gavin Lee, "Queer Music Theory." Music Theory Spectrum, 42/1 (2020): 1–11.