Well written and consistently provocative, Gender and the Musical Canon is a comprehensive and balanced study of women composers and their music. A classic in gender studies in music, it is nonetheless accessible for musically educated lay reader.
Well written and consistently provocative, Gender and the Musical Canon is a comprehensive and balanced study of women composers and their music. A classic in gender studies in music, it is nonetheless accessible for musically educated lay reader.
"I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be so interested
in a scholarly book of this type. As a woman composer and a teacher
of music, I felt so connected to the ideas in it and, more
importantly, utterly empowered by them. I have recommended it to
everyone I know!" -- Joan Tower
"Important and timely. . . . Valuable to anyone from the high
school student to the most accomplished academic." -- Renée Cox
Lorraine, MLA Notes
"[Citron] succeeds admirably in laying out the fundamental problems
and the solutions thus far available. . . . [Her] book is well
written and continuously provocative." -- Lydia Goehr, Music and
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