Alexandra Coghlan

Women and song

Anna Beer’s account of female musicians from the ninth century to the present finds them often vilified as loose women or even witches

  • Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music

    Anna Beer

    Oneworld, pp. 384

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