Article: A response to Rhian Samuel.(Critical Essay)

RHIAN SAMUEL'S REVIEW of Audible Traces: gender, identity, and music, edited by Lydia Hamessley and me, has many inaccuracies. (See Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 40, no. 1, pages 235-40.) Far more objectionable is Ms. Samuel's negligence: namely, or apparently, Ms. Samuel neither read the book attentively nor, as she has in fact indicated (238), did she listen with care to the CD (music / consciousness /gender by Benjamin Boretz). As early as the second sentence of the review, Ms. Samuel's non-reading became painfully evident: "An analogy is drawn between book and bedcover by editor (/photographer) Lydia Hamessley..." (235). But on page xx in Intro 2 of the book ...

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