Women Conductors on the Orchestral Podium: Pedagogical and Professional Implications

摘要: Recent discussions about women's experiences in the orchestral profession1 have revealed gendered politics behind any of gen rally ac epted norms and customs tradition. With bourgeoning feminist musicology, these voices intensified resulted a greater representation stories music-making. Notwithstanding efforts, however, sur prisingly little attention has been given to women conductors, small minority profession's most prominent discipline. In mid-late 1990s handful articles published on conductors appeared College Music Symposium;2 more recently, curious silence lack discussion accompanied growing number this field. In-depth analyses conductors' expe riences podium, particular, surprisingly rare.3 The absence their untold profession moved me undertake four-year ethnographic study seventeen professional con ductors United States, Kingdom, Australia, years 2000 through 2004.4 order develop broader picture its ethos, I also included my interviews with artistic administrators four world's leading orchestras,5 conducting pedagogues from six institutions,6 admin istrators American Symphony Orchestra League Women's Philhar monic (U.S.). For part, limited working as but did include two wind-band conductors. chose fields because believe they are revealing issues relating power prestige, patriarchal control, pay according rank. This is not say that choral for example, do face similar de