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Article: Masculine discourse in music theory. (Feminist Theory Forum)
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- Perspectives of New Music
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- June 22, 1993
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MUSIC THEORY AS A TOPIC FOR FEMINIST STUDY
What relation might music theory have to feminist thought?(1)
This question might be heard as proposing an interdisciplinary linkage, a cooperation between two initially self-sufficient discourses. But before trying to construct such a linkage, it is important to consider another issue. What does the contemporary field of professional music theory have to do with gender? This second question (or second way of hearing the first question), rather than depicting music theory and feminist criticism as separate enterprises that might interact, opens the possibility that music theory is already related to gender in ...