Masculinity and Western Musical Practice

'This book is timely, well organized, and well edited, each chapter thoughtful, provocative, and well written. In its entirety, it represents the most thorough and meticulous of cutting-edge musicology with its deft integration of materials and methodologies from the social sciences, literary studies, and art history. Its historical range from the Middle Ages through the mid-twentieth century is particularly useful at a time when many collections of essays concentrate on only a more limited time-frame and many methodologically current works of musical scholarship especially neglect earlier periods. This anthology is destined to become a classic not only in musical masculinity studies, but also gender studies. It will be useful to students and scholars of musicology, music criticism, the history of music theory, and the broadly-construed field of gender studies, and has real textbook potential for courses in all of these.' Professor Linda P. Austern, Northwestern University, USA Having a scope from medieval to modern Western art music, the essays reexamine effeminate composers, national masculinities, how men use music, and the various discourses that have been avoided concerning masculine ideas of creativity, participation, and canonicity. [...] This is a resource for music majors and specialists. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Choice