Feminist Theory (and electroacoustic music): Some classic sources for beginning and advanced inquirers in the field

Compiled by by Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner (University of North Texas) - December 2005

For those readers who wish to learn more about feminist (and queer) theory, especially in terms of its relevance to electroacoustic music, here is a list of classic sources I have compiled in the genre.

Ashby, Arved, ed. The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2004.

Barkin, Elaine, and Lydia Hamessley, eds. Audible Traces: Gender, Identity and Music. Zurich: Carciofoli Press, 1997.

Born, Georgina. Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde. Berkeley: Universityof California Press, 1995.

Bosma, Hannah. ‘Gender and Electronic Music.’ .
—   ‘Gender and Electroacoustics.’ .
—   ‘Male and Female Voices in Computer Music’ .
—   ‘Who creates electro-vocal music? (authors, composers, vocalists, and gender)’ .
—   ‘Écriture Féminine in electrovocal music’ .

Clément, Catherine. Opera, or the Undoing of Women. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988.

Dame, Joke. ‘Rocky times: Feminist musicology in the 1990's.’ Muziek en Wetenschap 2.1 (1992): 25–31.
—   ‘Theme and Variations: Feminist Musicology.’ Women's Studies and Culture: A Feminist Introduction. Rosemarie Buikema and Anneke Smelik, Eds. London: Zed Books, 1995.

Hinkle-Turner, Elizabeth. Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States: Crossing the Line. London: Ashgate Publishing (forthcoming Winter 2006).

Koskoff, Ellen. Women and Music: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.

Malloy, Judy, ed. Women, Art, and Technology. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.

McCartney, Andra. ‘Creating Worlds for My Music to Exist: Women Composers of Electroacoustic Music in Canada,’ IAWM Journal June 1996: 16–19.
—   ‘Inventing Images: Constructing and Contesting Gender in Thinking about Electroacoustic Music. ' Leonardo Music Journal 5 (1995): 57-66.

McClary, Susan. Feminine Endings. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

Moisala, Pirkko and Beverley Diamond. Music and Gender. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
Organised Sound 8.1(2003) – entire journal issue.

Simoni, Mary. ‘A Survey of Gender Issues Related to Computer Music and Strategies for Change.’ 1995 Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. Banff: International Computer Music Association, 1995.

Silverman, Kaya. The Acoustic Mirror: The Female Voice in Psychoanalysis and Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.