Name
942 - Watch Out for the Gender Gap!: A Bibliography on Women and Gender in Music Education
Date & Time
Thursday, July 30, 2026, 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Description
In 1979, a coffee table book, Women in American Music: A Bibliography of Music and Literature, was published by editors Adrienne Fried Block and Carol Neuls-Bates to acknowledge a lack of research and call for more scholars to join in their area of focus. A 1991 article by Jane Bowers and Urban Bareis, “Bibliography on Music and Gender - Women in Music” followed suit as part of a special edition on women in music and music research in The World of Music journal. Both signaled a pivotal shift in social and political landscapes as well as strengthened the argument for the newly created academic fields of gender studies and feminist musicology. In the following decades, research on women has continued, although the spotlight remains to be pointed towards that of women composers and performers. This ongoing project seeks to create a bibliography that overviews research completed on women and gender within the context of music education and its related practices. The current bibliography is split into four main sections: K-12 music education and curriculum; collegiate music and curriculum; music teacher training; and other perspectives (i.e. broader educational field or arts administration). While the majority of the present sources are categorized as originating from the United States, the author anticipates finding additional international sources to widen both the scope and impact of the bibliography. Additionally, the author hopes future sources found may include more voices of transgender and non-binary persons and not limited to just cisgender women. By adapting a storying research approach, the author also identified three common themes within much of the existing literature found thus far: the roles, sometimes pivotal, women and gender-neutral persons have played in music education; numerous types of discrimination or biases women or gender-neutral persons and have faced throughout their musical careers as well as the evolution of the profession; and how the contributions of past and present women and gender-neutral music educators have been little recognized in the profession’s broader history. The author expects to address the themes in the eventual introduction of the finalized bibliography. The growing reference list also serves as a valuable resource for those interested in future study of the aforementioned commonalities as well as the topics of women in music and gender and music studies.
Location Name
210A - Poster Gallery
Session Type
Poster Presentation
Presenter(s)
Allison Campion
Poster Board
64