In Her Own Words: Conversations with Composers in the United States (New Perspectives on Gender in Music)

This collection of new interviews with twenty-five accomplished female composers substantially advances our knowledge of the work, experiences, compositional approaches, and musical intentions of a diverse group of creative individuals. With personal anecdotes and sometimes surprising intimacy and humor, these wide-ranging conversations represent the diversity of women composing music in the United States from the mid-twentieth century into the twenty-first. The composers work in a variety of genres including classical, jazz, multimedia, or collaborative forms for the stage, film, and video games. Their interviews illuminate questions about the status of women composers in America, the role of women in musical performance and education, the creative process and inspiration, the experiences and qualities that contemporary composers bring to their craft, and balancing creative and personal lives. Candidly sharing their experiences, advice, and views, these vibrant, thoughtful, and creative women open new perspectives on the prospects and possibilities of making music in a changing world.

Biographies & Memoirs

KELLY, JENNIFER

Arts & Literature

University of Illinois Press

Humor & Entertainment

Drawing on cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and political economy, Borrowed Identities illustrates how technological changes in the early twenty-first century have enabled media to increasingly access cultural spaces previously bounded by time and space. This increased blurring of boundaries between local and global media has provided youth with additional resources to «think through» social experiences, and produce knowledge and identities. Using narratives and discourse analysis to illustrate how African Canadian youth as a social category make meaning in their everyday lives, this book examines not just the making of meaning but also the nuances of consumption in terms of political economy and material culture.

Borrowed Identities (Intersections in Communications and Culture)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Feminist scholarship and criticism has retrieved the Bluestocking women from their marginal position in 18th-century literature. This work collects the principal writings of these women, together with a selection of their letters. Each volume is annotated and all texts are edited and reset.

Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 1: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-91

Literature & Fiction

Eger, Elizabeth

Kelly,Gary

Hawley, Judith

Zuk, Rhoda

History & Criticism

Routledge

Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 2: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-92

Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 3: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-93

Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 4: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-94

Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 5: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-95

Bluestocking Feminism, Volume 6: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-96

Irene Kelly was brought up in poverty and abused by her mammy from an early age. But home life was still better than the time she spent in one of Dublin's industrial orphanages. In that harsh regime she was beaten and sexually assaulted. Set to work in the nursery, she saw the nuns treat the babies with horrifying cruelty. As an adult those experiences haunted Irene. When she fell in love with Matt, who was fighting his own demons, they moved to England for a new start. They wanted their daughter Jennifer to have a better life, but in trying to protect her by hiding their past they only succeeded in pushing her away. Until, one day, Irene had a phone call from Ireland that changed everything . . . Sins of the Mother is a powerful and inspiring story of a family whose love was tested but never broken, who finally found the strength to heal the past.

Sins of the Mother: A Heartbreaking True Story of a Woman's Struggle to Escape Her Past and the Price her Family Paid

Kelly, Irene

Kelly, Matt

Community & Culture

Pan Books

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