Women, New Music and the Composition of Becomings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3010409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sally Macarthur (0000-0003-1034-9479, Western Sydney University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1446-8123 • E-ISSN: 1837-8692 |
| Publisher | University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5130/csr.v16i2.1701 |
| OpenAlex | W2120587481 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
This article argues that 'new' music continues to replicate itself by being based on a set of outdated, inflexible practices which foster the centrality of the male, entrepreneurial, composing subject. Aesthetic distinctiveness has been muzzled because too many composers are competing for the same recognition and the same small 'pot of money', giving rise to musical mediocrity. The article notes that while the number of women composers studying music has increased in tertiary music institutions and points out that their representation by the Australian Music Centre has improved significantly over the past decade, these statistics are not reflected in the concert hall where women continue to be side-lined. It argues that the entrepreneurial performer is focused on the products created out of the already known and out of its masculinity and explores what would happen if music were composed out of its femininity and the unknown. It draws on Deleuze's concept of 'becoming' to disturb the old ways of thinking, and to imagine a transformation of music practice which would make viable that music which has been traditionally silenced
Aesthetics · Art · Composition (language · Femininity · Literature · Masculinity · Mediocrity principle · Musical · Musical composition · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Performing arts · Political science · Popular music · Representation (politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Visual arts · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Diverse Music Education Insights · Gender Studies · Law · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |