Cook 7

"Music & Gender"

-Critical theory works to expose ideologies in everyday life.
-Music institutions construct culture through canonization of repertoire and the importance of Western art music.
-Gender studies in music has brought more attention to women composers & performers, and gives a new lens to view the accepted canon.
-C.T. also used to expose sex & sexuality through music.
-The traditional view of music outside of culture/society is an ideological bias rejected by a number of contemporary scholars.
-Music, and its scholars, are socially constructed, at least partially.