Women in Music Blog

Recently I had the great pleasure to attend the joint meeting of the Greater New York Chapter of the Music Library Association and the Atlantic States Chapter of the Music Library Association which was held at Rutgers in New Brunswick, New Jersey October 13-14, 2017.  I was completely suprised to find out about a libguide everyone who is interested in Women in Music and libraries should know about!  I wasn't expecting my interest in Women in Music to intersect with this random conference meeting in quite such a sublime fashion!  Direct your attention, please, to an excellent resource about women in music and the operas they composed in a libguide called " In Her Own Hand: Operas Composed by Women 1625 to 1913." http://lisdemo.libguides.com/c.php?g=411045&p=2801638

Here in the Women in Music Interest Group we often feature women composers or women conductors and while there are a few articles about pop music that I've linked to here on our blog spot, we rarely hear about Jazz musicians.  This article from a blog written by Lauren Sevian from WBGO.org really brings up some interesting points about women working in jazz in today's society.  I hope you all find it as compelling as I did. http://wbgo.org/post/sexism-jazz-conservatory-club-one-saxophonist-shares-her-story#stream/0

Here's a fantastic blog entry by Ella Rose Chary about the gender divide in Musical Theater Writing.  Please read it, I think you'll all find it to be an excellent article about the state of women in musical theater! http://howlround.com/women-making-musical-theatre-institutions-hold-the-power-to-effect-change

The New York Times author Wesley Morris wrote this article all about the hypothetical need for us to establish a parallel pop music cannon for women and I thought putting it here might give us all the opportunity to discuss our impressions about the article.  Do we feel it is needed, if so...who should be on it?  Let's put our minds together and discuss the issue! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/magazine/should-women-make-their-own-pop-music-canon.html