{"product_id":"9781009098137","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Four Centuries of Women's Musical Salons : A Cross-Cultural History by Jacqueline Avila","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 31\/03\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor centuries, women have organized and hosted social gatherings known as 'salons,' which have served as sites of women's creativity and agency in the arts, sciences, and letters - especially music. This volume offers new understandings of women's musical salons across four centuries from North America, Latin America, Europe, North Africa, and the Ottoman Empire, foregrounding an often-overlooked platform of women's musicianship in cross-cultural perspective. Drawing on disciplines including musicology, ethnomusicology, women's and gender studies, cultural and performance studies, film studies, art history, anthropology, and Jewish studies, the authors present a new history of women and music through the lens of musical salon culture. The twenty-five case studies included in the book present an array of practices and manifestations of the institution of musical salons. These cases demonstrate how women from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds used salons as sites of agency, shaping their musical environments according to their distinctive interests and ideals. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368242000245,"sku":"9781009098137","price":120.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781009098137","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}