Full Description
Pathbreaking study that explores the piano as an instrument of globalism, colonialism and mobility and what this meant for women pianists from around the world.
This book surveys women pianists around the world. It focuses on the mid-nineteenth to the late-twentieth centuries, an era that witnessed sustained interest in piano performance against a backdrop of technological and socio-political transformation. The authors range from emerging to established scholars, from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia. They take diverse approaches to the piano as an instrument of globalism, colonialism, class, and mobility, within women's lives. These include explorations of mapping, networks, and cultural transfer; feminist examinations of archival traces; the implications of distinctive geographies and socio-political conditions; and the links between gender and genre, including contemporary and experimental musics. The volume offers a bold account of global approaches to women in music and encourages innovative ways of rethinking piano culture.
Global Perspectives on Women Pianists will be an exciting contribution to the growing landscape of global music history. This book will also contribute to the fields of gender studies, historical musicology, and material history.
The editors have curated a volume that achieves a genuine spread of "global" essays (and commendably, one that includes the "West" as simply another part of the globe).
JOE DAVIES is a faculty member in the Arts and Humanities Division at New York University Abu Dhabi. He previously held research and teaching positions at Maynooth University, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Oxford.
NATASHA LOGES is Professor of Musicology at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. She was previously Head of Postgraduate Programmes at the Royal College of Music, London.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
List of Music Examples
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: On the Global Trail of Women Pianists
Joe Davies & Natasha Loges
Part 1: East Asia to Africa
Chapter 1 | Re-Hearing the First Generation of Twentieth-Century Chinese Women Pianists
Ji Liu
Chapter 2 | 'Women Can Hold Up Half the Sky': Maoist Feminism and Class Politics in the Career of Gu Shengying
Zixi Ren
Chapter 3 | The Musical Fusion of East and West: Deh-Fang Swen Lai's Piano Works
Li-Ming Pan
Chapter 4 | Shifting Meanings of Piano Playing for Women in Late Ottoman and Republican Turkey
Gülçin Özkişi
Chapter 5 | A Tale of Two Pianos: Women Egyptian Pianists in the Twentieth Century
Nahla Mattar
Part 2: Russia to Eastern Europe
Chapter 6 | Mapping Russian Female Pianists (1850-1917): From Sabinina to Scriabina
Marina Frolova-Walker
Chapter 7 | On the Move: Women Pianist-Composers from Finland and Estonia from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century
Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik & Susanna Välimäki
Chapter 8 | (Un)silencing Czech Nineteenth-Century Women Pianists
Anja Bunzel
Chapter 9 | The 'Misses' of the Romanian Piano Scene: Threads of the German Pedagogical Tradition in Bucharest
Valentina Sandu-Dediu
Part 3: Across Western Europe
Chapter 10 | Delphine von Schauroth, Class, and the Path of the Artist
Amanda Lalonde
Chapter 11 | Women Recording Piano Rolls: A Case Study on Philipps Duca
Thomas Betzwieser
Chapter 12 | Narrating Women Pianists' Careers in Interwar France through Simone Plé's Le Rôle des femmes dans les carrières musicales
Apolline Gouzi and Arthur Macé
Chapter 13 | The Transantlantic Lives of Gaby Casadesus
Gabriele Slizyte
Chapter 14 | Harriet Cohen's British-Jewish Identity on the International Stage
Danielle Roman
Part 4: South to North America
Chapter 15 | 'Make Way, I'm Coming Through': The Legacy of Chiquinha Gonzaga
Joao Martins
Chapter 16 | Marie Majoie Hajary: A Surinamese Family History as Podium Identity and Source of Inspiration
Ellen de Vries
Chapter 17 | Rosa García Ascot: Spanish Pianist-Composer and Exile
Margaret Lucia
Chapter 18 | Visibility, Historiography, and Gender: Gwendolyn Koldofsky's Impact on North American Song Accompaniment
Chanda VanderHart
Chapter 19 | Flourishing Musical Lives and the Impact of Enduring Relationships: Grete Sultan and Tui St George Tucker
Reeves Shulstad
