Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919-1939 - Paperback

by Laura Hamer (Author)

Drawing upon extensive archival research, interview material and musical analysis, Laura Hamer presents an innovative study of women working as professional musicians in France between the two World Wars. Hamer positions the activities, achievements and reception of women composers, conductors and performers against a contemporary socio-politica

Author Biography

Laura Hamer is Associate Professor of Music at Liverpool Hope University. She is interested in women in music, nineteenth- and earlier twentieth-century music, and criticism and reception studies. She is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900 (forthcoming).