The Study of Women Instrumentalists
Women instrumentalists have always been in the United States. It is the academic study of women instrumentalists as a whole that is new [more than individual instrumentalists]. The majority of the dissertations covering this subject were written after the year 2000. The study of African American women instrumentalists is one of the newest of the new studies. Dissertations covering this particular subject are a rare find. The rare finds are included below in the selected list of theses and dissertations that focus on women instrumentalists from around the world.
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Dissertations: African American Women Instrumentalists
- African American women instrumentalists in jazz by Sarkino Mondrell.WalkerWithin the Masters' projects, summer session 1999. Vol IV.. M.M. Ed.; VanderCook College of Music; 1999
- Axe to Grind: A Cultural History of Black Women Musicians on the Acoustic and Electric Guitar in the United States by Matabane, Mashadi IoneEmory University, Ph D Dissertation, 2014
- Black women in contemporary American music by Carla Elissa SledgeM.A.; Eastern Michigan University; 1982
- Black women performers of women-identified music : "they cut off my voice, I grew two voices" by Eileen M HayesPh. D.; University of Washington; 1999
- The History of the Ladies Musical Club is like the biography of a great man : women, place, repertory, race, and the Ladies Musical Club of Seattle, 1891-1950 by Whitney Ann HendersonThe Ladies Musical Club of Seattle (LMC) was formed in 1891 by an all-female group of classically-trained musicians with two stated aims: to provide music of a high standard to the still-burgeoning town of Seattle, and to maintain their own substantial performance skills.
- A Study of Prominent African-American Orchestral Trumpet Players from 1970 to 2018 by Demarr Ray WoodsUniversity of Northern Colorado, Ph. D., 2018
- The Washington Conservatory of Music and African-American musical experience, 1903-1941 by Sarah Carr Liggett SchmalenbergerPh. D.; University of Minnesota; 2004
- Yes, Pm With the Band: The History and Perception of Black Women in Jazz by Chiara. FasiMaster of Arts Thesis, Long Island University - Brooklyn Campus, 2020
- “You sound like an old black man”: Performativity of gender and race among female jazz saxophonists by Yoko SuzukiDoctor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 2011
United States Dissertations: Women Instrumentalists
- "As long as I get to be me" : the formative experiences of early career female jazz instrumentalists by Anna PennoThesis M.M. Michigan State University. Music Education 2013
- A descriptive study of collegiate female jazz instrumentalists by Natalie L. Boeyink2015 Doctor of Music Education, Indiana University
- First-Wave Women Clarinetists Retrospective: A Guide to Women Clarinetists Born Before 1930 by Manchusa Loungsangroong,Doctor of Musical Arts, Ohio State University, 2017
- Gender and participation in undergraduate instrumental jazz ensembles: A national survey by Kathleen M. McKeageDoctor of Philosophy in Education, University of Wyoming, 2003
- Oral Histories of Women Instrumentalists in College Marching Bands Post-Title IX by Michquelena FergusonMusic Education, Doctor of Philosophy, Degree: 2021, Penn State University
- Playing Out: Women Instrumentalists and Women's Ensembles in Contemporary Tunisia by Alyson E. JonesPhD, Music: Musicology, 2010, University of Michigan
- Women brass players in jazz: 1860 to the present by Mary Lazarus WoodburyDoctor of Musical Arts in Trumpet, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, 1995
- Women in percussion: The emergence of women as professional percussionists in the United States, 1930–present by Meghan Georgina AubeDoctor of Musical Arts, The University of Iowa, 2011
- “Such unfeminine instruments”: Women brass musicians in America before 1940 by Joanna Ross HerseyDoctor of Musical Arts, The Hartt School, University of Hartford, 2006
International Dissertations: Women Instrumentalists
- (Re)Gendering Jazz: Women Instrumentalists in Toronto by Robin E. Desmeules2010 M. A. Thesis, Carleton University (Canada)
- Les femmes instrumentistes en France au XVIIIe siècle : professionnalisation et carrières : Female instrumentalists in 18th-century France : professionalisation and artistic carrers. by Imyra SantanaDocteur es, Musique et musicologie, 2020, Sorbonne université [Paris, France]
- Les femmes mandolinistes en Italie (1880-1915) : musique, mécénat et affirmation artistique : Female mandolinists in Italy (1880-1915) : music, patronage, and artistic self-assertion by Anna SchivazappaDocteur es, Musique et musicologie, 2022, Sorbonne université [Paris, France]
- The Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra and the Emergence of Women as Orchestral Musicians in Canada (1940–1965) by Maria L. NoriegaM. A. Thesis, University of Calgary (Canada), 2010
- Negotiating a position : women musicians and dancers in post-revolution Iran by Parmis MozafariPhD, 2011, University of Leeds [West Yorkshire, England]
- Para gritar o céu : o canto como desobediência feminina à cultura dos homens by Bruna Queiroz PradoDoctoral, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 2019 [São Paulo, Brazil]
- Run Deep: The Voice, Authorship and Musicianship of Chinese Female Rock Musicians (1979-2012) by Qu ShuwenDoctor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in September 2015
- Unprecedented access? : women instrumentalists in punk bands 1976-1984 : an exploration by Helen ReddingtonPhD, 2004, University of Westminster [London, England]