‘How Women Made Music’ Paints a Large, Colorful Canvas
From the contributors of NPR’s Turning the Tables series, How Women Made Music paints a large, colorful canvas from years of research and dialogue.
From the contributors of NPR’s Turning the Tables series, How Women Made Music paints a large, colorful canvas from years of research and dialogue.
Music writing often combines the personal, political, and historical in new and inventive ways revealing the interconnectedness of these categories.
The best contemporary music books on this list are specific and sweeping, creating new narratives that challenge dominant orthodoxy on music and its histories.
These are multiple works of genre history and works tackling important issues of race, class, and gender. All challenge dominant narratives of music.