Reissig / Stefanija Composing Women

'Femininity' and Views on Cultures, Gender and Music of Southeastern Europe since 1918
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-99012-997-5
Verlag: Hollitzer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

This volume presents fifteen musicological perspectives on the creativity of women composers and the question of 'femininity' in Southeastern-European musical cultures from 1918 on. In the questions about and beyond a 'female aesthetics', socio-cultural approaches to the lives of creative women prove to be indispensable for contemporary musicological gender research, because highly complex facts of musical life and social realities in political systems cannot be separated from each other. By this means the exclusion and marginalization of women composers in the national and international music establishment, as well as strategies for overcoming these systems, are made visible and brought to consciousness. This volume therefore focusses on the social, cultural, and biological preconditions of cultural action, and intends to arouse curiosity for multi-layered realities; it aims to increase the reception of the compositional oeuvre of women composers from Southeastern Europe by the global music scene, the musicological discourse, and an engaged audience.

Elfriede Reissig is an Austrian conductor and musicologist specializing in contemporary music and gender, author, and editor of numerous volumes on Luigi Nono and Giacinto Scelsi. Monograph 'Das atmende Klarsein' (Pfau-Verlag, Germany). In 2010-12 she was a collaborator in the 2 years FWF research project 'Giacinto Scelsi and Austria'. 2014-16 Research assistant at the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Music in Graz. Research interests include gender studies in aesthetics and analysis of classical modernism in music, as well as theoretical and empirical studies of cooperative creative processes of Giacinto Scelsi and women interpreter/performers. Leon Stefanija is a Slovenian musicologist at the Department of Musicology/Ljubljana, whose research focusses on the history of contemporary musical culture, and cognitive science of music; Stefanija is an external collaborator of the Music Academies Zagreb and Sarajevo and member of the editorial boards of several music-related journals. Graduated in 1995 from the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Arts, where he was also invited as a young researcher the same year. PhD, 2001, entitled Understanding the 'old' and the 'new' in recent Slovene music. His musicological work has focused on the analysis of the musical phrase, research in recent Slovenian music and the sociology of music. Head of the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, where he also lectures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reissig, Elfriede

Stefanija, Leon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the English Edition

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Women in Music Creation in Southeast European Cultures after 1918

HORIZONS AND PERSPECTIVES OF WOMEN'S STUDIES IN MUSIC

Susanne Kogler
Women's voices in contemporary music

THEORIES AND EXPERIENCES IN WOMEN'S MUSIC PRODUCTION

Vita Gruodyte
Gender Issues in Lithuanian Music

Elfriede Reissig
Women in composition in Austria

Leon Stefanija and Katarina Bogunovic Hocevar
Slovenian women composers after 1991

Adriana Sabo and Vesna Mikic (†)
About the (non)existence of 'female music': Serbia after 1918

Iryna Tukova
Empirics and theory: is there a 'female' music?
Or the creative work of modern Ukrainian women-composers

Ivana Miladinovic Prica
Women composers in Montenegro: The history of a relationship

Alma Bejtullahu
Contemporary women composers in Kosovo:

retrospectives and perspectives

Amra Bosnic
Women composers in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Martina Bratic
Croatia's women composers and sound creators since 1918

Elena Maria Sorban
Women Composers in Romania:

A Survey of their work in troubled times

Julijana Papazova
Aspects of the 'feminine' in the works of Macedonian women composers

Ákos Windhager and Anna Mária Bólya
Life and OEuvre: Women composers in Hungarian music since 1918

Yvetta Kajanová
Slovakian Women Composers: Courageous, Original and Prejudice-free

Miriam Blümlová
Women Composers in the Czech Lands
during the 20th Twentieth Century

Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Elfriede Reissig is an Austrian conductor and musicologist specializing in contemporary music and gender, author, and editor of numerous volumes on Luigi Nono and Giacinto Scelsi. Monograph "Das atmende Klarsein" (Pfau-Verlag, Germany). In 2010–12 she was a collaborator in the 2 years FWF research project "Giacinto Scelsi and Austria". 2014–16 Research assistant at the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Music in Graz. Research interests include gender studies in aesthetics and analysis of classical modernism in music, as well as theoretical and empirical studies of cooperative creative processes of Giacinto Scelsi and women interpreter/performers.

Leon Stefanija is a Slovenian musicologist at the Department of Musicology/Ljubljana, whose research focusses on the history of contemporary musical culture, and cognitive science of music; Stefanija is an external collaborator of the Music Academies Zagreb and Sarajevo and member of the editorial boards of several music-related journals. Graduated in 1995 from the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Arts, where he was also invited as a young researcher the same year. PhD, 2001, entitled Understanding the "old" and the "new" in recent Slovene music. His musicological work has focused on the analysis of the musical phrase, research in recent Slovenian music and the sociology of music. Head of the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, where he also lectures.