... content through the University of California Press’s Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2025 American Musicological Society opera French music nineteenth century ballet celebrity gender Many have tried to make sense of the scene...

.... This contribution to nationhood was negotiated through acts of exclusion as well as empowerment, particularly in relation to gender and race. Exhibition officials sought to ban women from participation in the orchestra, demonstrating the tenacious rhetoric of masculinity prevalent in orchestras of the period...

... education, and more. By interrogating the narratives about one woman’s unusual voice, I offer a new origin story for still resonant assumptions about the relationships between gender and disability, politics and domestic labor, and, fundamentally, bodies and voices. Figure 1 Collectible print published...

... Nina's relationship to various areas of contemporary politics—social, state, familial, and gender. The reports reveal that, in the public sphere, Nina, like Barberini's male dependents, served as a symbolic extension of the cardinal. By introducing courtesan singers—a significant, marginalized population...

... where fingers could be trained, subjectivities negotiated, gendered assumptions reproduced, symphonic sound converted into keyboard sound, and even abstract notions of canonicity consolidated. To elucidate this process, I examine Czerny's four-hand piano transcription of the final, “Ode to Joy...

... of their own musical culture. © 2010 by the American Musicological Society. All rights reserved. 2010 chamber music historiography private sphere British cultural identity gender This article is an expanded version of a paper first given as the keynote address to the North American British Music...