From: Notes | Date: September 1, 1997| Author: Carter, Stewart | COPYRIGHT 1997 Music Library Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Gender continues to be a hot topic in musicological circles. Over the last twenty years or so, the number of books and articles pertaining to women in music has multiplied rapidly. Earlier studies were uneven in quality; amidst some fine pioneering works (one thinks, for example, of Jane Bowers and Judith Tick's Women Making Music: Tire Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950 [Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986]) there were also more than a handful of underresearched and poorly edite...