Women's Music Resources - Women in Music
- Bay Area Women in Creative Music
Features a list of Bay Area women in creative music; interviews with women composers, songwriters, improvisers, and sound artists and links to additional sites both local and international.
- Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music
Society for Music Theory: Committee on the Status of Women.
- Early Music by Women Composers Born Before 1750
Early music, perhaps surprisingly, was not just the province of men. These eight women, from across Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, were among those who challenged the conventional restrictions of their gender at the time, and were able to make something of their compositional talents. Much of their music still survives today.
- FEMMUSIC.com
The Place For Emerging Women In Music.
- FemaleMusician.com
An educational electronic music magazine, audioproduction facility, and on
line community for women of all ages who seek to pursue a career in music.
- GoGirlsMusic.com
Founded in early 1996, the organization works tirelessly to help artists through education, networking, and events like the GoGirlsMusicFest, Invasion of the GoGirls during SXSW, GoGirls @ Folk Alliance and more.
- Historical Female Composers
Links to websites with exhaustive amounts of history on early women composers.
- IAWM
International Alliance for Women in Music. Builds awareness of women's contributions
to musical life through its publications, website, international competitions,
conferences and congresses, concert promotion, and presentation, and through
its support of entrepreneurial and publishing activities, scholarly research
and publications, broadcasts, educations initiatives, and advocacy work.
- Institute for Musical Arts
A non-profit teaching, performing, and recording facility dedicated to supporting women in music and its related business.
- International Women's Brass Conference
Exists to provide opportunities that will educate, support, develop, and inspire
all women brass players who wish to pursue professional careers in music.
Membership is open to all women and men who would like to support this effort.
- Ladyslipper Music
Ladyslipper is a North Carolina non-profit, tax-exempt organization which has been involved in many facets of women's music since 1976. Their basic purpose has consistently been to heighten public awareness of the achievements of women artists and musicians, and to expand the scope and availability of musical and literary recordings by women.
- Leonarda Productions
Classical, Medieval and Contemporary Recordings, Books, Music, Posters of and by women composers.
- The Maud Powell Society for Music and Education
Dedicated to preserving the legacy of American violinist Maud Powell (1867-1920) and furthering her musical ideals by encouraging young people to cultivate music. The Society is a resource on American and British classical music history and the significant contributions women have made to music throughout the ages. This site offers information about Maud Powell and the Society's programs, publications and events including its magazine on women in classical music.
- Medieval & Renaissance Women Composers
Annotated early music CD discography, featuring medieval and renaissance music by women composers and performers, with links to sounds clips (regularly updated).
- Timelines in music history: Women in music
Oxford Music Online.
- Women Composers and Women's Music
Indiana University School of Music, William and Gayle Cook Music Library.
- Florence Beatrice Smith Price (1888-1953)
orrespondence, musical scores, and other papers, 1906-1975 collection, University of Arkansas Libraries.
- Women Composers Early Music and Ragtime MIDI Soundfiles
Women composers MIDI - early music, ragtime, 19th century and more.
- Women in Jazz
Created by Pamela and Kevin Hart of HartBeat Productions to provide performance
opportunities and experiences for amateur and professional vocalists in the
Austin, Texas metropolitan area.
- Women
in Music with Laney Goodman
A weekly, one-hour radio series with an eclectic mix of excellent female artists
from around the world. Nationally syndicated since 1996, Women in Music is
heard on 80+ national public radio markets each week.
- Women
In the Arts
The purpose of Women In the Arts, Inc. (WIA) is to produce and sponsor programs
that promote and affirm the creative talents and technical skills of women
in the visual, performing, and fine arts. The primary vehicle to meet this
purpose is the production of the National Women's Music Festival. In producing
this and other arts programs, WIA strives to facilitate the growth, knowledge,
and empowerment of women in the other varied aspects of their lives.
- Women's
Rising
A web site for any woman involved in the indie music business in any way.
They provide CD reviews, feature stories, networking, member listings, airplay,
and support.
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