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This module focuses on women and music in Ireland during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. It examines women’s multifaceted roles in music (as composers, performers, broadcasters, songwriters, pedagogues, festival leaders, industry activists, and so on). Students engage with a range of genres: classical/contemporary art music, popular music, and traditional music. As well as examining women’s professional and amateur participation in music, the module explores how such individuals were subjected to gendered criticism and marginalisation. It further addresses how some Irish musicians have politicised their identities and voiced feminist views in their work.
Upon completion of this module, students should be able to:
• discuss Irish women composers from the nineteenth century to the present;
• describe how Irish women shaped musical infrastructures such as educational institutions and festivals;
• comment on the global impact of Irish women performers;
• evaluate the presence (or absence) of women in historical narratives of Irish music;
• analyse how contemporary Irish women musicians engage with feminist politics and movements such as #MeToo and the ‘Repeal’ campaign.
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WOMEN AND MUSIC IN IRELAND
Semester 1
