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In reaction to this perceived lack of inclusion of women in the mainstream, some feminists decided it necessary for women to create a separate space for women to create music. Lesbian and feminist separatism was then used as a "tactic which focused women's energy and would give an enormous boost to the growth and development of women's music." [11]
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond.
One of her best known works is Feminine Endings (1991). "Feminine ending" is a musical term once commonly used to denote a weak phrase ending or cadence.The work covers musical constructions of gender and sexuality, gendered aspects of traditional music theory, gendered sexuality in musical narrative, music as a gendered discourse, and discursive strategies of women musicians.
Arabic music is an amalgam of the music of the Arab people in the Arabian Peninsula and the music of all the varied peoples that make up the Arab world. In Egypt during the medieval era , male professional musicians during this period were called alateeyeh (plural), or alatee (singular), which means 'a player upon an instrument'.
Ethel Smyth was born in Sidcup, Kent, which is now in the London Borough of Bexley, on 22 April 1858, the fourth of eight children.While 22 April is the actual date of her birth, Smyth habitually stated it was 23 April, the day that was celebrated by her family, as they enjoyed the coincidence with William Shakespeare's. [3]
In music, modernism is an aesthetic stance underlying the period of change and development in musical language that occurred around the turn of the 20th century, a period of diverse reactions in challenging and reinterpreting older categories of music, innovations that led to new ways of organizing and approaching harmonic, melodic, sonic, and rhythmic aspects of music, and changes in ...
100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century [138] 1998 Friedman/Fairfax Publishers: 100 Remarkable Women of the 20th Century [139] 1999 ABC-Clio: Notable Women in American History (500 of the most notable women in American history) [140] 2010 Time: 25 Most Powerful Women of the Past Century [141] 2011 The Guardian: Top 100 Women [83] 2016 Esquire
20th century – Second-wave feminist; radical feminist; Redstockings; New York Radical Women [35] 1940–2024: Luzviminda Ilagan: Philippines: 20th century – Socialist feminist: 1940–2024: Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani: Iran: 20th century – Muslim feminist: 1940–2024: Andrew Kooman: Canada: 20th century – Anti-prostitution feminist; anti ...