Women in 19th-Century Czech Musical Culture and Their Representation in Encyclopaedias: Thoughts on Selection Processes in Music Lexicography (and/or Musicology)

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Result on the web

<a href="https://musicologytoday.ro/55/MT55studiesBunzel.pdf" target="_blank" >https://musicologytoday.ro/55/MT55studiesBunzel.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.69608/MT.55.04" target="_blank" >10.69608/MT.55.04</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Women in 19th-Century Czech Musical Culture and Their Representation in Encyclopaedias: Thoughts on Selection Processes in Music Lexicography (and/or Musicology)

Original language description

In 2016, Anna-Lise P. Santella described her job as publishing editor of The Grove Dictionary of American Music as falling ‘somewhere in the cracks between musicologist, lexicographer, and professional shepherd’. She explains that the process of conceiving, editing, and publishing large-scale encyclopaedias constituted a constant juggling of conflicting ideals, yet she is convinced that the work of lexicographers ‘helps scholarship grow’. It is precisely this aspect – the growth of scholarship as a shared interest between musicologists and lexicographers, which forms of the basis of this paper. In this paper, I examine a variety of music and art encyclopaedias dating from the 19th to the 21st centuries with regard to their inclusion of musical women within the context of 19th-century Czech musical culture. First, following a brief presentation of my methodology, I ask whether there are differences in coverage regarding the women’s birthdates and/or fields of activities, and regarding the individual encyclopaedias. Second, while I am hesitant to speculate as regards the possibility of systematic censorship, I explore possible regularities (and irregularities) in selection patterns across the sample. In the light of this, the purpose of my paper is two-fold. Quantitative in nature, section one sheds light on hundreds of lesser-known 19th-century female musical protagonists within the context of Czech musical culture. Section two is devoted to a contextualisation of my findings with regard to discussions typically encountered in lexicography and encyclopaedia writing.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Musicology Today: Journal of the National University of Music Bucharest

ISSN

2286-4717

e-ISSN

2067-5364

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

HU - HUNGARY

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

195-205

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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