LibGuides: Primary Sources: Gender & Sexuality in America: Music

Online Sources: Music -Gender & Sexuality

A Ballad of Dead Girls
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Bread and Raises: Songs for Working Women
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"I’m "ninety pounds of fire in a five-foot frame and you’d better move on over" because I’m tired of working for "59 cents for every man’s dollar!" Bobbie McGhee means business, literally, in this album dedicated to the working woman. Singing the songs of Si Khan, Willie Sordill, Jane Levine and others, McGhee proves that women are a force to be reckoned with and deserve their bread, roses and raises too."
Close Encounters of the Sex Kind
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Consensual Sex
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Different Therefore Equal
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"It is voices like Peggy Seeger’s on this album that helped to make significant strides in the struggle for gender equality. Seeger’s commentary is poignant and timeless as songs like "Nine-Month Blues" remain applicable in a society where a woman’s right to choose continues to instigate fiery debate."
Gay and Straight Together
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Let's Get It On
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Music & Dance Online This link opens in a new window
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Music and Dance Online delivers the largest, most diverse catalog of music content in the world for students, scholars, and patrons of the arts. The multimedia resource features works from thousands of respected partners, covers hundreds of genres from alternative to zydeco and from alternative dance to operatic arias, and encompasses a wide range of content formats - including scores, reference, and high definition audio and video.

To Stretch Our Ears by James Heywood Alexander
Call Number: ML200 .T67 2002
ISBN: 0393974111
A Documentary History of America's Music
Music in the USA: A Documentary Companion by Judith Tick
Call Number: ML200 .M89 2008
ISBN: 0195139887
"The anthology of primary sources contains about 160 selections from 1540 to 2000."
New Historical Anthology of Music by Women
Call Number: M2 .N46 2004
ISBN: 0253216834
"Contains vocal and instrumental music from the Middle Ages to the present, with introductory essays on each composer."
Women in Music by Carol Neuls-Bates
Call Number: ML82 .W65 1986
ISBN: 1555532403
An Anthology of source readings from the Middle Ages to the Present

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