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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821008503321

Autore

MacArthur Sally

Titolo

Towards a twenty-first-century feminist politics of music / / Sally MacArthur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-317-00909-6

1-317-00910-X

1-315-55059-8

1-4094-1825-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

780.82

Soggetti

Feminism and music

Music by women composers - 21st century - History and criticism

Music - 21st century - History and criticism

Music - Philosophy and aesthetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An Ashgate book"--cover.

First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Music Examples; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Thinking with Deleuze; 1 How is Gender Composed in Musical Composition?; 2 How is the Composer Composed?; 3 Composing 'New' Music's Public Image; 4 Feminists Recomposing the Field of Musicology; 5 A Thousand Dissonances and Women's 'New' Music; 6 Women, 'New' Music and the Composition of Becomings; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Towards a Twenty-First Century Feminist Politics of Music opens up a new way of thinking about the absence of women's music. It does not aim to find 'a solution' in a liberal feminist sense, but to discover new potentialities, new possibilities for thought and action. Sally Macarthur encourages us, with the assistance of Deleuze, and feminist-Deleuzian work, to begin the important work of imagining what else might be possible, not in order to provide answers but to open up the as yet unknown. The power of thought - or what Deleuze calls the 'virtual' - opens up new possibilities. Macarthur sug