A history of women in music from antiquity to present day
DeBakcsy, Dale2025
Books
In 2024, women swept the Grammy awards, prompting headlines about their arrival in music. However, women have been shaping pivotal musical developments over the past 3000 years. 'A History of Women in Music from Antiquity to the Present Day' is a magisterial survey of their manifold contributions to musical history around the world, from Sappho to Nicki Minaj, M.S. Subbulakshmi to Madonna, and Hildegard of Bingen to AKB48. Here are the stories of the women who worked their way from the secret palace performers of sixteenth-century Italy to the quasi-divine operatic divas of nineteenth-century France, whose artistry made the Blues a profitable venue for Black vocalists at the dawn of the recording age.
Main title:
A history of women in music from antiquity to present day / Dale DeBakcsy.
Author:
DeBakcsy, Dale, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword History, 2025.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781036104337 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
780.8209780.8209 DEBA
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
8788917
Bookmark link:
More Information: