Boboltz, Sara. “There Are So Few Women In Music Production, No One Bothers To Count.” The Huffington Post. May 03, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-producers-statistics_us_57113cebe4b0060ccda345be.
This is one of the original articles I read about female producers. I think this would be useful in my paper for it’s current statistics of female producers. It’s only a Huffington Post article so as far as sources go it’s probably on the weaker side, but the information is valuable for my topic.
de Graaf, Melissa J. 2008. “Never call us lady composers”: Gendered receptions in the new york composers’ forum, 1935-1940. American Music 26 (3) (Fall 2008): 277-308.*
I’ve found that this writer has written a lot about Johanna Beyer. This source includes transcripts from a forum she did about modern music. It also has the only known photo of her. It’s interesting in this topic because they talk about some gendered responses to Beyer’s work. This forum also included her male contemporaries, which I think is something I want to also bring up in my paper.
———. 2008. The records of the new york composers’ forum: The documentary motive and music in the 1930s. Notes – Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 64 (4) (Jun 2008): 688-701.*
This source addresses exactly what I want to address with my paper. It talks about other female composers around the same time as Beyer and the roles they were expected to fill. The source provides a lot of context for the time and about what women had to face as musicians. I haven’t read the entire piece, but the sources for it are immensely helpful. This is probably the strongest source I have.
George, Kat . “Where are the Female Music Producers? – Cuepoint.” Medium. January 13, 2016. https://medium.com/cuepoint/where-are-the-female-music-producers-269dfeac1def#.37vi5cdzc.
I wanted to include another article that provides statistics for contemporary female producers. Although it may be one of my weaker sources I do want to somehow tie this paper into contemporary culture.
Graaf, Melissa Jenny de, (Author). 2004. Intersection of gender and modernisn in the music of johanna beyer. Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter 33 (2) (Spring; Spring, 2004): 8.*
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/aca_centers_hitchcock/NewsS04.pdf
This is a shorter article the same author, Melissa Graaf, wrote about Beyer. It’s weaker than the other sources I have by her since it doesn’t include the primary transcripts. However, this article talks about gender and modernism in this music context.
Lumsden, Rachel. 2012. Beyond modernism’s edge: Johanna beyer’s string quartet no. 2 (1936) and vivian fine’s “The race of life” (1937). Ph.D., City University of New York.*
I have to go to the CUNY library to get the full book text so I could only read the abstract. It talks about Johanna Beyer and a female composure from around the same time. The source seems to dissect the music more than the other sources I have so far so I’m interested in it. The abstract also says that it’s informed by feminist theory so I think it will work.
Marchant, Jeremy. 2011. Collections: “restless, endless, tactless: Johanna beyer and the birth of american percussion music”. Fanfare – the Magazine for Serious Record Collectors. Jul 2011.*
This article talks about Johanna Beyer’s work in percussion music. I learned that some of her work was probably among the first. I don’t think this source is particularly strong because it’s just a review of her work. I may not even use it.
Rodgers, Tara. (2010). Pink noises: Women on electronic music and sound. Durham [NC: Duke University Press.
This is one of my favorite books I found it at a record store and picked it up because of the author’s name. Tara Rodgers runs a submission based website talking about female producers and she took some of the interviews she did and turned it into this book. Although, she doesn’t mention Beyer, she has interviews with female electronic artists and their views on why there isn’t more visibility for the genre. This is what lead me to Beyer because one of her sources included her in a list.
Wajcman, Judy. TechnoFeminism. Oxford, GBR: Wiley, 2013. ProQuest ebrary.
This book also details the gendering of technology. It provides a really comprehensive history of a feminist reading of technology. This source is strong and will provide a broader insight on what I’m arguing.
