Suggested Readings

This is a total list of suggested texts for reading in this course. Essential readings for each lecture are attached to the lecture lists. 

There will be no core textbook that students need to purchase. We encourage students to supplement the essential readings with texts that are of special interest to them.

All books/articles on the reading list will be available in electronic format through the UiO library (oria.no) or at Fronter. 

Abtan, F. (2016) "Where Is She? Finding the Women in Electronic Music Culture." in Contemporary Music Review 35(1), 53–60.

Armstrong, V. (2011) Technology and the gendering of music education. Farnham: Ashgate.

Battersby, C. (1989) Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Bayton, M. (1997) "Women and the Electric Guitar." in Whiteley, S. (ed.) Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender. London: Routledge, 37–49.

Born, G., & Devine, K. (2016). "Gender, Creativity and Education in Digital Musics and Sound Art." Contemporary Music Review, 35(1), 1–20.

Born, G., & Devine, K. (2015). Music technology, gender, and class: Digitization, educational and social change in Britain. Twentieth-Century Music, 12(2), 135–172.

Bowers J. and Tick, J. (1986) ”Introduction” in Women making Music. The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 3-14.

Bradby, Barbara. 1993. "Sampling Sexuality: Gender, Technology and the Body in Dance Music." Popular Music 12(2), 155-176.

Brett, P. (2006) ”Musicality, Essentialism and the Closet” in Brett, P. Wood, E. and Thomas, G. C. (Eds.) Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 9-26.

Citron, M. (1986) “Women and the Lied 1775-1850 “ in Women making Music. The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 224-248.

Citron, M. (2007): “Women and the Western Art Canon: Where Are We Now?” in Notes, Second Series, Vol. 64, No. 2, Music Library Association, 209-215

Cohen, S. (1997) "Men Making a Scene: Rock Music and the Production of Gender." in Whiteley, S. (ed.) Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender. London: Routledge, 17–36. 

Cusick, S. (2001) "Gender, Musicology, and Feminism",  in Cook, N. and Everist, M. (eds) Rethinking Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 471–498.

Doubleday, V. (2008) “Sounds of Power: An Overview of Musical Instruments and Gender” in Ethnomusicology Forum 17(1), 3-39.

Dunbar, J. C. (2011) Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction. New York: Routledge.

Frith, S., & McRobbie, A. (1990). Rock and sexuality. In S. Frith, & A. Goodwin (Eds.), On record: Rock, pop, and the written word (pp. 371–389). New York, NY: Pantheon Books.

Gavanas, A, and Rosa R. 2013. “DJ Technologies, Social Networks and Gendered Trajectories in European DJ Cultures” in Attias, B. A., Gavanas, A. and Rietveld, H. C. (eds) DJ Culture in the Mix: Power, Technology, and Social Change in Electronic Dance Music, New York and London: Bloomsbury, 51–77.

Green, L. (1994) ”Gender, Musical Meaning, and Education” in Philosophy of Music Education Review, Vol. 2 No. 2,  Indiana University Press, 99-105.

Green, L. (1997) Music, Gender, Education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Green, L. (2014) ”Music, Gender and Education. A Report on Some Exploratory Research” in Music Education as Critical Theory and Practice. Selected Essays. Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate, 89-123.

Halberstam, J. Jack. 2012. Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal. Boston: Beacon Press.

Huyssen, A. (1986) ”Mass Culture as Woman. Modernism’s Other” in After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism, Bloomington and Indiapolis: Indiana University Press, 44-62.

H?g?sen-Hallesby, H. (2007) “Carmens performative hevn” in Tidsskrift for kj?nnsforskning nr 3, Universitetsforlaget, 5–18. [for readers of Norwegian, at Fronter]

Keightley, K. (1996) “Turn it down!” She shrieked: Gender, domestic space, and high fidelity, 1948–59. Popular Music, 15(2), 149–177.

Koskoff, E. (2014) A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 

Leonard, Marion. (2007) Gender in the Music Industry: Rock, Discourse and Girl Power. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Lochhead, J. (2008) “Theorizing Gender, Culture, and Music: The Sublime, the Ineffable, and Other Dangerous Aesthetics” in Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 12, 63–124.

Maus, F. E. (2011) “Music, Gender, and Sexuality” in Clayton M., Herbert T. and Middleton, R. (eds.) The Cultural Study of Music: A Critical Introduction, Routledge, 2011, 317-329.

McClary, S. (1989) ”Terminal Prestige: The Case of Avant-Garde Music Composition” in Cultural Critique, No. 12, Discursive Strategies and the Economy of Prestige. University of Minnesota Press, 57-88.

McClary, S. (1991) Feminine Endings: Music, Gender & Sexuality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

McClary, S. (1992)  “Images of Race, Class and Gender in 19th Century France” in George Bizet’s Carmen, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [online/UiO oria.no]

McClary, S. (1993)  “Narrative Agendas in ‘Absolute Music’: Identity and Difference in Brahms’ Third Symphony” in Musicology and Difference. Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, University of California Press. [Fronter]

Piekut, B. (2011) "Murder by Cello: Charlotte Moorman Meets John Cage" in Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant–Garde and its Limits, Berkeley: University of California, 140–176.

Reddington, H. (2012) The Lost Women of Rock Music: Female Musicians of the Punk Era. Aldershot Ashgate.

Rieger, E. (2002) "'Desire is Consuming Me': The Life Partnership Between Eugenie Schumann and Marie Fillunger" in Fuller, S. and Whitesell, L. (eds) Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity. Urbana: University of Illinois Press,  25–48.

Robertson, C. E. (1987) Power and gender in the musical experiences of women. In E.Koskoff (Ed.), Women and music in cross-cultural perspective (pp. 225–244). Champaign: University of Illinois Press.

Rodgers, T. (2010) “Introduction.” in Pink Noises: Women on Electronic Music and Sound. Durham: Duke University Press, 1–23.

Scharff, C. (2015). "Blowing your own trumpet: exploring the gendered dynamics of self-promotion in the classical music profession." The Sociological Review, 63(S1), 97–112.

Solie, R. A. (ed.) (1993) Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Straw, W. (1997) "Gender and Connoisseurship in Rock Music Culture" in Whiteley, S. (ed.) Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender. London: Routledge, 3–16. 

Taylor, J. (2012) “Scenes and Sexualities: Queerly Reframing the Music Scenes Perspective.” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 26 (1), 143–156.

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