Sally Macarthur

Towards a Twenty-First-Century Feminist Politics of Music (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Towards a Twenty-First Century Feminist Politics of Music opens up a new way of thinking about the absence of women's music. It does not aim to find 'a solution' in a liberal feminist sense, but to discover new potentialities, new possibilities for thought and action. Sally Macarthur encourages us, with the assistance of Deleuze, and feminist-Deleuzian work, to begin the important work of imagining what else might be possible, not in order to provide answers but to open up the as yet unknown. The power of thought - or what Deleuze calls the 'virtual' - opens up new possibilities. Macarthur suggests that the future for women's 'new' music is not tied to the predictable and known but to futures beyond the already-known. Previous research concludes that women's music is virtually absent from the concert hall, and yet fails to find a way of changing this situation. Macarthur finds that the flaw in the recommendations flowing from past research is that it envisages the future from the standpoint of the present, and it relies on a set of pre-determined goals. It thus replicates the present reality, so reinforcing rather than changing the status quo. Macarthur challenges this thinking, and argues that this repetitive way of thinking is stuck in the present, unable to move forward. This book sets out to develop a new conception of subjectivity that sows the seeds of a twenty-first century affirmative, feminist politics of music.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317009108
• Artikelnr.: 44815578

Autorenporträt

Dr Sally Macarthur, Senior Lecturer in Musicology, School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: thinking with Deleuze
How is gender composed in musical composition?
How is the composer composed?
Composing 'new' music's public image
Feminists recomposing the field of musicology
A thousand dissonances and women's 'new' music
Women, 'new' music and the composition of becomings
Bibliography
Index.