Although women have been teaching and performing music for centuries, their stories are often missing from traditional accounts of the history of music educatio

Female seminaries in nineteenth-century America offered middle-class women the rare privilege of training in music and the liberal arts. A music background in p

This two-volume reference describes the role of women in all types of music in the U.S. since 1900. The alphabetically-arranged entries cover important individu

The Oxford Handbook of Preservice Music Teacher Education in the United States advocates for increased cultural engagement in Pre-K-12 music education.

The history of women's education in the United States presents a continuous effort to move from the periphery to the mainstream, and this book examines both for