Book Review
Feb. 11th, 2018 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariSounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music
by Anna Beer
An unabashedly feminist introduction to eight women composers from the 17th through the 20th centuries, Sounds and Sweet Airs is a good overview of the lives of these composers. Beers gives frank and interesting commentary on how ideas about women and their roles throughout history have defined and limited the ways women could create and perform music, and shows how these limitations affected each of the composers for good or ill. This book is meant for the general reader rather than the serious music student, but is very enjoyable and a good gateway to further study of these composers.
by Anna Beer
An unabashedly feminist introduction to eight women composers from the 17th through the 20th centuries, Sounds and Sweet Airs is a good overview of the lives of these composers. Beers gives frank and interesting commentary on how ideas about women and their roles throughout history have defined and limited the ways women could create and perform music, and shows how these limitations affected each of the composers for good or ill. This book is meant for the general reader rather than the serious music student, but is very enjoyable and a good gateway to further study of these composers.
