This Woman's Work
Essays on Music
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Published:2nd Mar '23
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A powerful anthology, This Woman's Work explores women's experiences in music through essays by acclaimed writers, challenging historical narratives.
This collection, This Woman's Work, delves into the female experience in music through the insightful contributions of renowned writers. Edited by Kim Gordon and Sinéad Gleeson, it features a diverse array of voices, including Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, and Ottessa Moshfegh, each exploring the complex relationship women have with music. The essays challenge the historical narrative that has often sidelined women's contributions, providing a platform for their stories and perspectives.
This Woman's Work serves as a powerful response to the male dominance prevalent in music and its criticism. It confronts the sexism embedded within the canons of music, literature, and film, illustrating how women have been compelled to carve out their own spaces in these fields. The contributors share their experiences and insights, highlighting the struggles and triumphs of women in music, from the genre-defying artists to those who have used their art as a form of activism.
The essays cover a wide range of topics, including the intersection of music and politics, the impact of cultural backgrounds, and the personal narratives that shape the artists' identities. Through stories of lost homelands, friendships, and the fight against stereotypes, This Woman's Work not only celebrates women's voices in music but also seeks to inspire future generations to continue breaking barriers.
This Woman's Work is a captivating read that brings memories and music into the same space to show how closely they are connected. It will make you want to dig out the songs your mother played to help you fall asleep as a child or the CD that never left your stereo in your teens * The Wire *
[This Woman's Work] strikes a chord: "We can't help but surrender to what moves us in the sound even if it seems contradictory or irrational; in fact, our experience of music is full of contradictions," Heather Leigh writes in the introduction. The result is a collection worth tuning in to * Publishers Weekly *
By inhabiting the sound worlds these women create, we get to engage with a vast range of ideas, to consider profound concepts of liberty and oppression, of joy and terror. Always there are the notes between, of the unexpected, the nuanced, the bold. . . This Woman's Work is an important collage of tenses, disciplines, perspectives, borders and experiences. * The Quietus *
This Woman's Work is a collection of music writing, but in the loosest possible sense. Here, music is the soil in which all manner of stories take seed and bloom * Guardian *
Sixteen bright, insightful essays that present an array of trailblazers, geniuses, obsessives * Irish Times *
ISBN: 9781474621496
Dimensions: 196mm x 126mm x 28mm
Weight: 240g
272 pages