Composing disappearances – the mythical power behind the woman composer question

This article discusses the influence of a simple, erroneous idea that has contributed to maintain a traditionally patriarchal reality. Drawing from the fields of musicology, myth studies, creativity studies and feminist aesthetics, it argues that the false, yet recently common notion that there have...

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Autor: Chibici-Revneanu, Claudia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Entreciencias: diálogos en la sociedad del conocimiento
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/62004
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.unam.mx/index.php/entreciencias/article/view/62004
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:compositoras
Fanny Mendelssohn
Clara Schumann
genio
compositoras mexicanas contemporáneas.
female composers
genius
contemporary Mexican women composers.
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Sumario:This article discusses the influence of a simple, erroneous idea that has contributed to maintain a traditionally patriarchal reality. Drawing from the fields of musicology, myth studies, creativity studies and feminist aesthetics, it argues that the false, yet recently common notion that there have been no female composers of classical music has interacted with the gendered myth of genius to perpetuate its misleading, but self-affirmative premises. Although the case of each female composer is unique and complex, an analysis of the lives of Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann, as well as a glance at contemporary Mexican women composers, reveal how the status-quo enhancing role division implicit in the genius myth has – albeit decreasingly – channeled women into creatively subordinate roles. This, in a cyclical manner, has helped to affirm the mythical belief that the gift of musical creativity tends to be a male attribute.