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Author Kelly, Jennifer (Musician)

Title In her own words : conversations with composers in the United States / Jennifer Kelly
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 475 pages)
Series New perspectives on gender in music
New perspectives on gender in music.
Contents Joan Tower -- Shulamit Ran -- Jennifer Higdon -- Gabriela Lena Frank -- Alice Parker -- Chen Yi -- Tania León -- Hasu Patel -- Pauline Oliveros -- Meredith Monk -- Svjetlana Bukvich -- Pamela Z -- Toshiko Akiyoshi -- Maria Schneider -- Augusta Read Thomas -- Hilary Tann -- Libby Larsen -- Laura Karpman -- Winifred Phillips -- Deborah Lurie -- Jeanine Tesori -- Beth Anderson -- Janika Vandervelde -- Mary Jane Leach -- Emma Lou Diemer
Summary This collection of interviews with twenty-five accomplished female composers explores the work, experiences, compositional approaches, and musical intentions of a diverse group of creative individuals. With personal anecdotes and sometimes surprising intimacy and humor, these wide-ranging conversations represent the diversity of women composing music in the United States from the mid-twentieth century into the twenty-first. The female composers interviewed in this text work in a variety of genres, including classical, jazz, multimedia, or collaborative forms for the stage, film, and video games. Their interviews illuminate questions about the status of women composers in America, the role of women in musical performance and education, the creative process and inspiration, the experiences and qualities that contemporary composers bring to their craft, and balancing creative and personal lives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-465) and index
Notes Text in English
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Subject Women composers -- United States -- Interviews
Composers -- United States -- Interviews
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC -- Individual Composer & Musician.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Composers
Women composers
United States
Genre/Form Interviews
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021701834
ISBN 9780252094835
0252094832
1299647987
9781299647985
0252037596
9780252037597