Joe Davies: Global Perspectives on Women Pianists, Gebunden

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Pathbreaking study that explores the piano as an instrument of globalism, colonialism and mobility and what this meant for women pianists from around the world.

This volume surveys women pianists across a broad geohistorical range, exploring how gender and place intersected in their lives. It focuses on the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries - years that witnessed sustained interest in piano performance, both onstage and in recording, against a backdrop of technological and socio-political transformation. This extended from the 1848 revolutions, through two World Wars, to the decline of colonialism and the rise of second-wave feminism in its various guises.

The authors range from established to emerging scholars, from the USA, Western and Eastern Europe including Russia and Türkiye, South America, East Asia, and Africa. They take diverse approaches to the piano as an instrument of globalism, colonialism, class, and mobility, within women's lives. These include explorations of mapping, networks, and cultural transfer; feminist examinations of archival traces, including encyclopaedias; the implications of distinctive geographies and socio-political conditions; and the links between gender and genre, including contemporary and experimental musics. The volume offers a bold account of global approaches to women in music and encourages innovative ways of considering piano culture more generally.