Chapter 1 Introduction: Composing Women’s (Very) Long 100-year Fight: Evolutions, Illuminations, Solutions, Linda Kouvaras.- Part I Creative Work—Then and Now.- Chapter 2 Synaesthetic Associations and Gendered Nature Imagery: Female Agency in the Piano Music of Amy Beach, Sabrina Clarke.- Chapter 3 “Australian Bush Songs” as Multimodal Discourse: The Remarkable Collaboration of Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, Annie Rentoul, and Georgette Peterson, Johanna Selleck.- Chapter 4 The 1940s Australian Ballet that “Far Outstripped ... ‘Swan Lake’ in Popular Appeal”: Esther Rofe’s Ground-Breaking Ballet,
Sea Legend,
Emma Townsend.- Chapter 5 Italians, Indians and Indigenous People: Innovative Themes and Materials Found in the Operas of Early-C20
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Australian Women Composers, Jeanell Carrigan.- Chapter 6 “Conjuring Up the Magic”: Helen Gifford’s Compositional Passage to the Creation of
Fable
for Solo Harp, Jacinta Dennett.- Chapter 7 Of Broken Trees and Elephant Ivories: The Revivification of the Colonial Piano Manifested Through a New Work by Catherine Milliken, Gabriella Smart.- Chapter 8 Beyond Exploitation: Feminist Satire in Jennifer Walshe's
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Jaslyn Robertson.- Chapter 9 Hildegard’s Daughters: Women Composers “Overcoming Their Astonishment”, Natalie Williams.- Chapter 10 Is the Category of the “Woman Artist” Still Helpful?, Susan Best.- Part II The State of the Industry in the Present Day.- Chapter 11 “Dear Women Composers in Australia (and Beyond):” (A Letter from a Music Critic), Rosalind Appleby.- Chapter 12 Programming Orchestral Repertoire by Women Composers: Challenges and Opportunity, Joanna Drimatis.- Chapter 13 Troubleshooting Gender in the Australian Screen Music Industry: An Insider Perspective, Felicity Wilcox.- Chapter 14 Programming with Gender Parity in Call-Based New Music Festivals, Alice Bennett.- Chapter 15 Mentoring Emerging Women Composers, Maria Grenfell.- Chapter 16 Content Targets Work: A Practical Example of Changing Behaviours and Processes in Programming Women Composers, Naomi Johnson and Matthew Dewey.- Chapter 17 Working Towards Gender Equality and Empowerment in Australian Music Culture, Cat Hope.- Part III Creating; Collaborating: Composer and Performer Reflections.- Chapter 18
The Book of Daughters
and The Sonic aGender Guitar Project: Inclusivity as Guiding Principle, Lisa MacKinney.- Chapter 19
When We Speak
: Creating (“Something Personal”) in a Three-Level Collaboration, Lisa Cheney.- Chapter 20 “It Gently Makes Itself Known...”: A Composer and a Violist Discuss their Collaboration on
Cranes,
Phoebe Green.- Chapter 21 Children’s Opera in theTwenty-First Century: The Child-Centred Approach to Writing, Emma Jayakumar.- Chapter 22 Making Music in A Chorus of Women, Glenda Cloughley and Johanna McBride.