Contributors
- Contributors
Felicity Baker is head of music therapy training at the University of Queensland. She is currently on the editorial board of the Nordic Journal of Music Therapy and a reviewer for the Australian Journal of Music Therapy. She has served as president of the Australian Music Therapy Association and is currently on the National Education Committee for the Association.
Annamaria Cecconi received her laurea and following diploma di perfezionamento in philosophy at Padua University and teaches poetic and dramatic literature at Conservatorio “A. Vivaldi,” Alessandria. She has published articles on P. P. Bissari’s Medea Vendicativa (1668), the reception of Plautus’s Casina cross-dressing in The Rake’s Progress, and epistemological problems of gender musicology. She is currently working on male Mediterranean stereotypes in verismo melodrama.
Norma Coates is assistant professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater. She serves as vice president of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, U.S. branch. She has published several articles about rock music and gender in journals and anthologies. Her current booklength project about rock music on U.S. network television before MTV is under contract to Duke University Press.
Kevin J. H. Dettmar is professor of English and cultural studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He is coeditor of Reading Rock & Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics (Columbia University Press, 1999) and is currently completing a study of the cultural meanings of the persistent rumors regarding the “death of rock.”
Christina B. Gier is a musicologist who writes on gender and music with particular attention to modernism and gender discourse. She currently is working on diverse projects ranging from Alban Berg’s musical response to the Viennese Frauenfrage (in pieces such as “Reigen” and Lulu) to American song during World War One and discourses of difference during war.
Bonnie Gordon is assistant professor of music at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has published on the female voice in early modern Italy and on contemporary female singersongwriters. Her book Monteverdi’s Unruly Women: The Power of Song in Early Modern Europe was published in 2004 by Cambridge University Press. She has received awards from the American Association of University Women, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Mellon Foundation.
Lydia Hamessley is associate professor of music at Hamilton College, where she teaches courses in medieval and Renaissance music history, world music, women in music, and opera. She received her doctorate from the University of Minnesota, and she was the coordinator for the first “Feminist Theory and Music Conference: Toward a Common Language” held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1991. She has published in Music & Letters, Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, Menacing Virgins: Images of Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and Signs: A Journal of Gender and Culture. She coedited, with Elaine Barkin, Audible Traces: Gender, Identity, and Music. Her research interests center on southern Appalachian music as well as women in old-time and bluegrass music. She is an avid clawhammer banjo player and a quilter.
Ellen Koskoff is professor of ethnomusicology at the Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester, where she teaches ethnomusicology and directs the two Eastman School Balinese gamelans. She has published widely on Jewish music, on gender issues in music, and on music and cognition. She is the editor of Women and [End Page 122] Music in Cross Cultural Perspective (1987) and the author of Music in Lubavitcher Life (2000), winner of the 2002 ASCAP Deems-Taylor Award. She is a contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the general editor of volume 3, The United States and Canada, of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, and a past president of the Society for Ethnomusicology.
Elizabeth Mackinlay is a lecturer in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland, where she teaches courses in indigenous studies, anthropology, and ethnomusicology. Liz completed a doctorate in ethnomusicology in 1998 and a doctorate in education in 2003. She is undertaking research on indigenous Australian women’s performance, performance pedagogy and embodied learning, and music teaching and music learning environments. Liz is presently on the National Committee of...
