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The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond provides a comprehensive exploration of women?s participation in musical leadership from the nineteenth century to the present. 

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The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond provides a comprehensive exploration of women?s participation in musical leadership from the nineteenth century to the present. Global in scope, with contributors from over thirty countries, this book reveals the wide range of ways in which women have taken leadership roles across musical genres and contexts, uncovers new histories, and considers the challenges that women continue to face.

The volume addresses timely issues in the era of movements such as

Table of Contents:

1 Defining, Surveying and Interrogating Women in Musical Leadership
Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors

PART I
Historical Perspectives: Historical Perspectives: An Introduction
Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors

2 Augusta Hervey: Lady of ?The Ladies? Guitar and Mandoline Band?
Sarah Clarke

3 Examining the Birth of Guitar Societies in America: From Women Guitarists? Advocacy to Philanthropy
Kathy Acosta Zavala

4 ?Scatter[ing] All Prejudices to the Winds?: Wilma Norman-Neruda and Camilla Urso as Leaders of the Nineteenth-Century String Quartet
Bella Powell

5 Surviving the Everyday: Gendered Violence, Patriarchal Power Structures, and Strategies of Resistance in Late Nineteenth-Century Ladies? Orchestras
Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik

6 Sites of Empowerment: Fin-de-Si?cle Salon Culture and the Music of Cécile Chaminade
Ann Grindley

?7 Une Belle Manifestation Féministe?: The Formation of the Union des Femmes Professeurs et Compositeurs de Musique
Laura Hamer

8 The Forgotten Woman: Joan Trimble (1915?2000) and the Canon of Twentieth-Century Irish Art Song
Orla Shannon

9 ?There is No Gate, No Lock, No Bolt That You Can Set Upon the Freedom of My Mind?: Being a Woman in Franco?s Prisons: A Glimpse Through Music
Elsa Calero-Carramolino

PART II
Conductors and Impresarios: Conductors and Impresarios: An Introduction
Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors

10 Lilian Baylis: The Visionary Impresario
Kenneth Baird, with Laura Hamer

11 Musical Ghosts: Re-Instating Elsie April in Historical Narratives of the British Musical
Arianne Johnson Quinn and Sarah K. Whitfield

12 ?She is a Degenerate Cocaine Addict?: Emma Carelli, A Diva- Impresario Facing Her Opponents
Matteo Paoletti

13 Henriette Renié as a Harp Ensemble Leader, Choral and Orchestral Conductor, and Impresario in the Light of Archival Sources
Temina Cadi Sulumuna

14 An American Female Violinist and Conductor in Paris: "La Kazanova et Ses Tziganes" (1933?1938)
Jean-Christophe Brange. Translation: Kiefer Oakley

15 Edis de Philippe, the Israel National Opera (INO), and the Politics of Music
Kira Alvarez

16 Odaline de la Martinez ? Conductor, Composer, Entrepreneur, Leader
Carola Darwin

PART III
Women?s Practices in Music Education: Women?s Practices in Music Education: An Introduction
Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors

17 Embodying the Rhythm of Self in Leadership
Judith Francois

18 Learning to Coach, Coaching to Lead
Jane Booth and Jane Cook

19 The Work that (Irish) Women Do: Reframing Leadership in a British University Ceílí Band
Anne-Marie Beaumont

20 ?It?s Not About Me!?: The Life a nd Leadership of Cathi Leibinger
Margaret J. Flood

21 Addressing Cyclic Gender Constructs in Music and Music Education in the UK
Abigail Bruce and Chamari Wedamulla

22 Pipeline to the Podium: Can Gender Differentiated Pedagogical Approaches: Address the Underrepresentation of Women Conductors?
Katherine Hanckel

23 Women Leading Change in Assessment Calibration
Michelle Phillips

24 Innovation and Leadership in Group Teaching Across the Lifespan: Three Case Studies
Cynthia Stephens-Himonides, Margaret Young, and Melanie Bowes

25 Training Early Career Women Teachers in Choral Leadership: Building a Community of Practice
Rebecca Berkley

PART IV
Performance and the Music Industries: Performance and the Music Industries: An Introduction
Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors

26 Women?s Musical Leadership in Music Industries and Education
Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors, with Alice Farnham, Katy Hamilton, Emma Haughton, Jessy McCabe, Sarah MacDonald, Davina Vencatasamy and Eleanor Wilson

27 Preparing Women for Musical Leadership: Student and Faculty Voices
Allison Gurland, Elizabeth Markow, Rebekah E. Moore, and Shannon Pires

28 Women Leading Opera in the UK: An Ethnographic Study of Innovation
Elizabeth Etches Jones

29 Diversity in Italian Music Programming: Symphonic and Chamber Music Programming in Milan
Valentina Bertolani and Luisa Santacesaria

30 Beyond Music Workshops: A Composer and a Community
Jenni Roditi

PART V
Faith and Spirituality: Worship and Sacred Musical Practices: Faith and Spirituality: Worship and Sacred Musical Practices: An Introduction
Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors

31 Leading the Way: Victorian Premonitions for the Female Voice in Anglo-Jewish Music
Danielle Padley

32 Sisters in Song: Women Cantors and Musical Creativity in Progressive Jewish Worship
Rachel Adelstein

33 Maruja Hinestrosa: Faith and Introspection in a Colombian Composer
Luis Gabriel Mesa Martínez

34 Undoing Sanctity: Imee Ooi?s Popular Contemporary Buddhist Music
Fung Ying Loo and Fung Chiat Loo

35 The Female Role in Sacred Musical Practices in Sh??ah Rituals in Iraq
Ahmed Al-Badr

36 A Muslim in a Baptist Church: Discovering My Calling as a Sacred Musician
Theresa Parvin Steward

37 Power, Pop, and Performance
Major John Martin

38 ?No Lady Need Apply?: Women and Girls in Cathedral Musical Leadership
Enya HL Doyle and Katherine Dienes-Williams

39 Unsuitable for Evensong: Examining Exclusion and Diversity in the Repertoire of Oxford Collegiate Anglican Choirs
Caroline Lesemann-Elliott

PART VI
Advocacy: Advocacy: Collectives, and Grassroots Activism: An Introduction
Laura Hamer and Helen Julia Minors

40 Power, Care and the Paradox of Leadership: A Kabbalistic Enquiry
Nicky Gluch

41 Toppling Systemic Exclusion: Women?s Roles in a Century of Jazz
Tahira Clayton, Amanda Ekery, and Hannah Grantham

42 Mapping the Boundaries: Encountering Women?s Creativity in the Salon602
Briony Cox-Williams

43 Women?s Leadership Within Latin American Musicians? Unions: Opportunities and Challenges
Ananay Aguilar

44 From ?Women?s Revolutions Per Minute?, Through ?Taking Race Live? to Co-Founding ?Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Music Studies Network?: Supporting, Developing and Establishing Collaborative Networks for Change
Helen Julia Minors

45 Women?s Revolutions Per Minute: Access to, Distribution, and Recognition of Music by Women
Hilary Friend with Helen Julia Minors

46 Gender Relations in New Music (GRiNM) and Yorkshire Sound Women Network (YSWN): Case Studies in Activism and Organisation for Change
Stellan Veloce, Brandon Farnsworth, Rosanna Lovell, Heidi Johnson, Abi Bliss, and Eddie Dobson

47 Sounding the Feminists: Campaigning for Institutional Change to Support Women in Music in Contemporary Ireland1
Laura Watson