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.
Contributions by Susanne Kogler (Austria) | Vita Gruodyte (Lithouania) | Elfriede Reissig (Austria) | Leon Stefanija and Katarina Bogunovic Hocevar (Slovenia) | Adriana Sabo and Vesna Mikic (†) (Serbia) |
Iryna Tukova (Ukraine) | Ivana Miladinovic Prica (Montenegro) | Alma Bejtullahu (Kosovo) | Amra Bosnic (Bosnia-Herzegovina) | Martina Bratic (Croatia) | Elena Maria Sorban (Romania) | Julijana Papazova (Macedonia) | Ákos Windhager and Anna Mária Bólya (Hungary) | Yvetta Kajanová (Slovakia) | Miriam Blümlová (Czech Republic) (Verlagstext)
Inhalt:
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
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