Outline

Tara Shanahan

April 4, 2017

Integrative Seminar 2

Outline

  1. Intro
    1. Thesis: Despite recording the first piece of electronic music and that her colleagues were John Cage and Henry Cowell, Johanna Beyer’s life and the omission of her work in music history both literature and teaching is an example of the gender barriers including accessibility and visibility presented to women in electronic music.
  2. Gendering of Technology
    1. Wajcman, Judy. Oxford, GBR: Wiley, 2013. ProQuest ebrary.
    2. Rodgers, Tara. (2010). Pink noises: Women on electronic music and sound. Durham [NC: Duke University Press.
  • Masculinity and Modernism
    1. Moderism and Masculinity: Mann, Wedekind, Kandinsky Through World War I by Gerald Izenberg pg. 11
  1. Johanna Beyer
    1. Not much known about her life before she came to The New School
      1. How she got involved with the Seegers
    2. Poverty and Supporting Herself
    3. Reception of her pieces
      1. Forum responses to her and Ruth

Henry Cowell

  1. Gay? / jail
  • Being a secretary
  1. Not promoting her own work
  1. Music of the Spheres
  2. Why is she omitted from histories?
    1. German
    2. Woman
      1. Lack of resources
      2. Modernism as a male dominated movement
    3. Biography
      1. Beal, Amy C.. American Composers : Johanna Beyer. Urbana, US: University of Illinois Press, 2015. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 3 April 2017.
        1. Not taught at the New School despite being an alumni, teacher, and colleague was John Cage
      2. 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.*
        1. gendered perceptions of her work
      3. Conclusion

 

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