B.A. in Music Senior Capstone Projects
Document Type
Capstone Project
Presentation Date
Spring 2014
Abstract
One of the currently prevalent analytic approaches in academia is feminist theory and criticism. Its combination with musicology has influenced the field for the past four decades. The goal of the new approach, loosely termed “feminist musicology,” has been to discover, analyze, discuss, and promote the representation of women and the “feminine” essence in various disciplines of music. Today, feminist musicology is highly researched, published in books and journals, and presented as scholarly papers at various musicological conferences around the world. This new approach introduces the ideologies of feminism to the study of music. Susan McClary and Marcia J. Citron are two musicologists who were influenced by these ideologies and have guided the musicological world in this direction of feminist musicology. Both have made serious contributions to the emerging field of feminist musicology. Both researched the ideas of gender musical construction within musical narratives, music as a gendered discourse, and historical and social factors that affected women in music. Although they have met with considerable resistance, Susan McClary and Marcia J. Citron have significantly expanded the scope of musicology through their application of feminist theory.
Keywords
Musicology, Susan McClary, Marcia J. Citron, feminist studies
Recommended Citation
Reitsma, Kimberly, "A New Approach: The Feminist Musicology Studies of Susan McClary and Marcia J. Citron" (2014). B.A. in Music Senior Capstone Projects. 10.
https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/music_and_worship_ba_capstone/10
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Program
