Female Artists & Women in the Music Industry

Female Artists & Women in the Music Industry

A full understanding of the history of music is impossible without more research and publication that focuses on women's roles as creators, performers, teachers and scholars of music. Included in this mini-collection, are roles such as studio technicians, backing groups or even muses!

11 projects. Showing results 1 through 11.

"I'm Used to Playing Lead"

Memoirs by Women in Jazz

Amy Tucker, Queens College CUNY (Emerita)
digitally altered photograph of Bjork

Björk

Nicola Dibben, University of Sheffield
period photograph of Dora Bright writing at a desk

Dora Bright

Her Life and Works in the Public Eye

Anthony Bilton, Independent Scholar
portrait photo of composer holding a violin

Grażyna Bacewicz

Joanna Sendlak, Artist and Writer, Translated by Halina Maria Boniszewska
photo of female guitarist standing on outdoor stage surrounded by loudspeakers

Hired Guns

Portraits of Women in Alternative Music

Amanda Kramer, Musician, Wayne Byrne, Author, Journalist and Broadcaster

Lives, Wives & Loves Of Great Composers

Fritz Spiegl, Broadcaster, Journalist, Humourist, Musician (1926-2003)
Photo of Simone in Profile

Nina Simone

Richard Elliott, University of Newcastle
Graphic design suggesting output from instrumentation in a recording studio

She’s at the Controls

Sound Engineering, Production and Gender Ventriloquism in the 21st Century

Helen Reddington, University of East London

Szymanowska

Danuta Gwizdalanka, Musicologist
punk female guitarist in recording studio

The Lost Women of Rock Music

Female Musicians of the Punk Era (Second Edition)

Helen Reddington, University of East London

The Other Voice

Women's Musical Creativity in Alma Mahler's Vienna

Carola Darwin, Royal College of Music