Laura Hamer is Staff Tutor and Lecturer in Music at the Open University. She is the author of Female Composers, Performers, Conductors: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919–1939 (2018) and co-editor, with Helen Julia Minors, of The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond (forthcoming).

'Covering a range of topics, this collection should appeal to a broad spectrum of readers … Recommended.' J. M. Edwards, Choice Connect

• List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface Laura Hamer; List of Abbreviations; Part I. The Classical Tradition: 1. Women in Composition before the Second World War Sophie Fuller; 2. Women in Composition During the Cold War in Music Rhiannon Mathias; 3. Behind the Iron Curtain: Female Composers in the Soviet Bloc Elaine Kelly; 4. Still Exceptional? Women in Composition Approaching the Twenty-First Century Astrid Kvalbein; 5. On the Podium: Women Conductors Laura Hamer; 6. Soloists and Divas: Evolving Opportunities, Identity, and Reception Francesca Placanica; In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 1 – Elizabeth Hoffman; Part II. Women in Popular Music: 7. Most of My Sheroes Don't Appear on a Stamp: Contextualising the Contributions of Women Musicians to the Progression of Jazz Tammy L. Kernodle; 8. Leaders of the Pack: Girl Groups of the 1960s Jacqueline Warwick; 9. Women and Rock Leah Branstetter; 10. (You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman: Women in Songwriting Katherine Williams; 11. The British Folk Revival: Mythology and the 'Non-Figuring' and 'Figuring' Woman Michael Brocken; 12. How MTV Idols Got Us In Formation: Solo Women and their Brands Make Space for Truth Telling, Trauma, and Survival in Popular Music from 1981 to the Present Kristin J. Lieb; In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 2 – Virginia Kettle; Part III. Women and Music Technology: 13. Case Studies of Women in Electronic Music: The Early Pioneers Louis Niebur; 14. The Star-Eaters: A 2019 Survey of Female and Gender Non-Conforming Individuals Using Electronics for Music Margaret Schedel and Flannery Cunningham; In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 3 – Manuella Blackburn; Part IV. Women's Wider Work in Music: 15. Women and Music Education: Pedagogues, Curricula, and Role Models Robert Legg; 16. Women in the Music Industries: The Art of Juggling Clare K. Duffin; In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 4 – Steph Power; Afterword: Challenges and Opportunities: Ways Forward for Women Working in Music Victoria Armstrong; Appendix: Survey Questions for Chapter 14; Select Bibliography; Index.

Laura Hamer is Staff Tutor and Lecturer in Music at the Open University. She is the author of Female Composers, Performers, Conductors: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919–1939 (2018) and co-editor, with Helen Julia Minors, of The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond (forthcoming).

'Covering a range of topics, this collection should appeal to a broad spectrum of readers … Recommended.' J. M. Edwards, Choice Connect

• List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface Laura Hamer; List of Abbreviations; Part I. The Classical Tradition: 1. Women in Composition before the Second World War Sophie Fuller; 2. Women in Composition During the Cold War in Music Rhiannon Mathias; 3. Behind the Iron Curtain: Female Composers in the Soviet Bloc Elaine Kelly; 4. Still Exceptional? Women in Composition Approaching the Twenty-First Century Astrid Kvalbein; 5. On the Podium: Women Conductors Laura Hamer; 6. Soloists and Divas: Evolving Opportunities, Identity, and Reception Francesca Placanica; In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 1 – Elizabeth Hoffman; Part II. Women in Popular Music: 7. Most of My Sheroes Don't Appear on a Stamp: Contextualising the Contributions of Women Musicians to the Progression of Jazz Tammy L. Kernodle; 8. Leaders of the Pack: Girl Groups of the 1960s Jacqueline Warwick; 9. Women and Rock Leah Branstetter; 10. (You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman: Women in Songwriting Katherine Williams; 11. The British Folk Revival: Mythology and the 'Non-Figuring' and 'Figuring' Woman Michael Brocken; 12. How MTV Idols Got Us In Formation: Solo Women and their Brands Make Space for Truth Telling, Trauma, and Survival in Popular Music from 1981 to the Present Kristin J. Lieb; In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 2 – Virginia Kettle; Part III. Women and Music Technology: 13. Case Studies of Women in Electronic Music: The Early Pioneers Louis Niebur; 14. The Star-Eaters: A 2019 Survey of Female and Gender Non-Conforming Individuals Using Electronics for Music Margaret Schedel and Flannery Cunningham; In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 3 – Manuella Blackburn; Part IV. Women's Wider Work in Music: 15. Women and Music Education: Pedagogues, Curricula, and Role Models Robert Legg; 16. Women in the Music Industries: The Art of Juggling Clare K. Duffin; In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 4 – Steph Power; Afterword: Challenges and Opportunities: Ways Forward for Women Working in Music Victoria Armstrong; Appendix: Survey Questions for Chapter 14; Select Bibliography; Index.

Laura Hamer is Staff Tutor and Lecturer in Music at the Open University. She is the author of Female Composers, Performers, Conductors: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919–1939 (2018) and co-editor, with Helen Julia Minors, of The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond (forthcoming).

'Covering a range of topics, this collection should appeal to a broad spectrum of readers … Recommended.' J. M. Edwards, Choice Connect

• List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Preface Laura Hamer; List of Abbreviations; Part I. The Classical Tradition: 1. Women in Composition before the Second World War Sophie Fuller; 2. Women in Composition During the Cold War in Music Rhiannon Mathias; 3. Behind the Iron Curtain: Female Composers in the Soviet Bloc Elaine Kelly; 4. Still Exceptional? Women in Composition Approaching the Twenty-First Century Astrid Kvalbein; 5. On the Podium: Women Conductors Laura Hamer; 6. Soloists and Divas: Evolving Opportunities, Identity, and Reception Francesca Placanica; In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 1 – Elizabeth Hoffman; Part II. Women in Popular Music: 7. Most of My Sheroes Don't Appear on a Stamp: Contextualising the Contributions of Women Musicians to the Progression of Jazz Tammy L. Kernodle; 8. Leaders of the Pack: Girl Groups of the 1960s Jacqueline Warwick; 9. Women and Rock Leah Branstetter; 10. (You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman: Women in Songwriting Katherine Williams; 11. The British Folk Revival: Mythology and the 'Non-Figuring' and 'Figuring' Woman Michael Brocken; 12. How MTV Idols Got Us In Formation: Solo Women and their Brands Make Space for Truth Telling, Trauma, and Survival in Popular Music from 1981 to the Present Kristin J. Lieb; In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 2 – Virginia Kettle; Part III. Women and Music Technology: 13. Case Studies of Women in Electronic Music: The Early Pioneers Louis Niebur; 14. The Star-Eaters: A 2019 Survey of Female and Gender Non-Conforming Individuals Using Electronics for Music Margaret Schedel and Flannery Cunningham; In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 3 – Manuella Blackburn; Part IV. Women's Wider Work in Music: 15. Women and Music Education: Pedagogues, Curricula, and Role Models Robert Legg; 16. Women in the Music Industries: The Art of Juggling Clare K. Duffin; In Her Own Words: Practitioner Contribution 4 – Steph Power; Afterword: Challenges and Opportunities: Ways Forward for Women Working in Music Victoria Armstrong; Appendix: Survey Questions for Chapter 14; Select Bibliography; Index.