Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from twelfth-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. Musicology and Difference brings together some of the freshest and most challenging voices in musicology today on a question of importance to all the humanistic disciplines.

CONTRIBUTORS:
Carolyn Abbate, Philip Brett, Suzanne G. Cusick, Barbara Engh, Ellen Koskoff, Lawrence Kramer, Susan McClary, Mitchell Morris, Nancy B. Reich, Carol E. Robertson, John Shepherd, Ruth Solie, Judith Tick, Leo Treitler, Gretchen A. Wheelock, Elizabeth Wood

Ruth A. Solie is Professor of Music at Smith College.

"'Gender studies in music may be the fastest growing, most influential part of a discipline that was once dominated by European scholarship. . . . And it now has its first anthology . . . giving a portrait of the state of the art of gender criticism."—Edward Rothstein, New York Times

"Neatly dispels the common misconception that gender studies concerns only the recovery of women's history in music. The fifteen essays that comprise the volume offer a heady mixture of ideas about the relationships among music, gender, and sexuality; the contributors include some of the most thoughtful critical music scholars writing today."—Ellie M. Hisama,The Journal of Musicology

"The sensitizing work done in these essays is indispensable to an understanding of where music's future lies."—Laurence Vittes, Los Angeles Reader Review