Music, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: A Teacher’s Guide serves as a guide to the professor tasked with teaching music to undergraduates, with a focus on gender. Although the notion of feminist approaches in musicology was once greeted with scorn, the last 40 years have seen a seismic shift across music studies, to the point that classes on women and music are now commonplace in most undergraduate music program. The goal of this book is to give the instructor some tools and strategies that will build confidence in approaching music as it relates to gender and sexuality, and to offer some advice on how to make the class rewarding for all.
The book is organized into four broad sections, plus an introduction outlining how to use the book and how the teaching of music, gender, and sexuality can be rewarding. Each section – Composition, Support, Performance, and Audience – includes possible themes for study and examples of music that can illuminate those themes, allowing the instructor to shape the course according to their own preference for classical, jazz, or popular styles. The author offers a practical guide to building syllabi that can fit the instructor’s interests and the priorities of the institution, crafting assignments that will engage and inspire students, choosing repertoire from a range of styles and genres, and maintaining a focus on how music shapes gender, and how gender shapes music.
Author(s): Jacqueline Warwick
Series: Modern Musicology and the College Classroom
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 139
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Rationale
Structure
Sample Lesson One
What Does Music Have to Do with Gender or Sexuality?
Marked and Unmarked Identities
Mainstream Musical Clichés of Gender
Reflections and Connections: How Are Sounds Gendered?
Notes
Further Reading
1. Networks
Suggested Topics
Sample Lesson Two
Salonnières
Paris Salons and the Authority of the Amateur
Pauline Viardot and French Romanticism
The Musical Utopia of Nadezhda von Meck
Reflections and Connections: Groupies and Rock Culture
Sample Lesson Three
African-American Women’s Networks in the 1930s
Florence Price, Estelle, and Margaret Bonds
Marian Anderson and the Lincoln Memorial Concert
Reflections and Connections: Women’s Musical Networks in Other Regions
Sample Lesson Four
Womyn’s Music Networks
Maxine Feldman, Alix Dobkin, and the Birth of Women’s Music
Music and Lesbian Utopias
The Michigan Women’s Music Festival
Reflections and Connections: The Emergence of TERF Rhetoric
Discussion/Assignment Questions
Notes
Further Reading
2. Composition
Suggested Topics
Sample Lesson Five
Symphonie Fantastique: Madness and Masculinity
How Does Wordless Music Tell Stories?
Hector Berlioz: Madness, Music, and Misogyny
Harriet Smithson, Obsession, and the Idée Fixe
Reflections and Connections: Echoes of Music and Madness
Sample Lesson Six
Blues Queens and Their Inheritors
The Blues as Compositional Practice
Bessie Smith, Empress of the Blues
Ma Rainey and Outspoken Queerness
Gladys Bentley, Harlem, and the Pansy Craze
Reflections and Connections: Musical Heirs of the Blues Queens
Sample Lesson Seven
Motherhood
Birth: A Universal Theme?
Joni Mitchell, “Little Green”
Unwed Mothers and Magdalene Laundries
Sinéad O’Connor and Lost Pregnancy
Björk and the Corporeality of Mothering
Reflections and Connections: Shifting Attitudes Toward Motherhood
Discussion/Assignment Questions
Notes
Further Reading
3. Performance
Suggested Topics
Sample Lesson Eight
Gender-bending Voices
CastratiIn
Travesti
Pantomime Dames and Principal Boys
Voices in Transition
Reflections and Connections: Voicing Non-Binary Identities
Sample Lesson Nine
Swan Lake
Spectacle and Scopophilia
Swan Lake: Story, Music, and Movement
Swan Lake and Girl Culture
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake
Connections and Reflections: Billy Elliot
Sample Lesson Ten
Disney Musicals and Compulsory Heterosexuality
Once Upon a Time: Snow White and the First Disney Princesses
Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty
Ariel and the Disney Renaissance
Ideologies of Romance
Disney Princesses Grappling with Diversity
Reflections and Connections: Elsa and Anna
Discussion and Assignments Questions
Notes
Further Reading
4. Reception
Suggested Topics
Sample Lesson Eleven
Lisztomania and Its Echoes
Lisztomania
Crooners
Liberace, Manilow, and the Older Woman Fan
Reflections and Connections: Kenny G and Smooth Jazz
Sample Lesson Twelve
Girlhood and Pop Music
Girl Groups of the 1960s
Girls in Rock Culture
Reflections and Connections: Bedroom Pop and Girlhood
Sample Lesson Thirteen
Music and Sports
Music, Sports, and Masculinity
Boxing
Improvisation and Individualism
Collective Identity through Sports Fandom
Reflections and Connections: Music in Other Communities
Discussion/Assignment Questions
Notes
Further Reading
Index
