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Women in music impact and influence creativity, activism, and culture. Currently, a significant percentage of popular and classical musicians are women, and a significant portion are songwriters (many of them being singer-songwriters). Despite this, few record producers, rock critics, or rock instrumentalists are women.
Ammer wrote the first edition of Unsung because there was a lack of material about women in music at the time. [4] When Unsung was first published in 1980 it was considered "a pioneering volume at a time when women in music was a fledgling area located at the margins of musicology," according to Music & Letters. [5]
Viola Clara Smith (née Schmitz; November 29, 1912 – October 21, 2020) was an American drummer best known for her work in orchestras, swing bands, and popular music from the 1920s until 1975. She was one of the first professional female drummers.
Featured as one of the pre-eminent Torchbearers of Indian Classical Music in a book released in 2017. [27] Featured as a Woman of Pure Wonder in a book by Vodafone Foundation in 2016. [28] Featured in the film Adventure Divas by the American Public Broadcasting Service as one of the great women achievers of India and the World in 2001. [29]
Mary Wilson (March 6, 1944 – February 8, 2021) was an American singer. She gained worldwide recognition as a founding member of the Supremes, the most successful Motown act of the 1960s and the best-charting female group in U.S. chart history, [1] as well as one of the best-selling girl groups of all-time.
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (born 1925), cellist, surviving member of the Women's Orchestra in Auschwitz; Margarethe Quidde (1858–1940), Prussian-born cellist, writer, pacifist in Munich; Eleonore Schoenfeld (1925–2007), influential 20th-century cellist, recording artist and educator
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First female music director of the London Mozart Players and of Music of the Baroque, Chicago. Third woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera. [38] Chiquinha Gonzaga: Brazil 1847 1935 First female conductor in Brazil. [39] Karen Gorden: United States Special Jury Prize, 50th Geneva International Conducting Competition 1967 Founded FORCULTURE in ...