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Global Perspectives on Women Pianists

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davies, Joe
Other Authors: Loges, Natasha
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Incorporated, 2026.
Subjects:
Women pianists.
Piano > History.
Women in music.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front cover
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Music Examples
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: On the Global Trail of Women Pianists
  • Part 1: East Asia to Africa
  • 1 Re-Hearing the First Generation of Twentieth-Century Chinese Women Pianists
  • 2 'Women Can Hold Up Half the Sky': Maoist Feminism and Class Politics in the Career of Gu Shengyin
  • 3 The Musical Fusion of East and West: Deh-Fang Swen Lai's Piano Works
  • 4 Shifting Meanings of Piano Playing for Women in Late Ottoman and Republican Turkey
  • 5 A Tale of Two Pianos: Women Egyptian Pianists in the Twentieth Century
  • Part 2: Russia to Eastern Europe
  • 6 Mapping Russian Female Pianists (1850-1917): From Sabinina to Scriabina
  • 7 On the Move: Women Pianist-Composers from Finland and Estonia from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century
  • 8 (Un)silencing Czech Nineteenth-Century Women Pianists
  • 9 The 'Misses' of the Romanian Piano Scene: Threads of the German Pedagogical Tradition in Bucharest
  • Part 3: Across Western Europe
  • 10 Delphine von Schauroth, Class, and the Path of the Artist
  • 11 Women Recording Piano Rolls: A Case Study on Philipps Duca
  • 12 Narrating Women Pianists' Careers in Interwar France through Simone Plé's Le Rôle des femmes dans les carrières musicales
  • 13 The Transatlantic Lives of Gaby Casadesus
  • 14 Harriet Cohen's British-Jewish Identity on the International Stage
  • Part 4: South to North America
  • 15 'Make Way, I'm Coming Through': The Legacy of Chiquinha Gonzaga
  • 16 Marie Majoie Hajary: A Surinamese Family History as Podium Identity and Source of Inspiration
  • 17 Rosa García Ascot: Spanish Pianist-Composer and Exile
  • 18 Visibility, Historiography, and Gender: Gwendolyn Koldofsky's Impact on North American Song Accompaniment
  • 19 Flourishing Musical Lives and the Impact of Enduring Relationships: Grete Sultan and Tui St. George Tucker
  • Index