Melting the Venusberg: A Feminist Theology of Music

by Heidi Epstein

Book Overview

This book begins with a pointed critique of the foundations of the understanding of Western music: that music from Pythagoras to the Renaissance has been viewed as the source and model of order in the universe and in society. Unfortunately that order was rigidly hierarchical, so that over the centuries music reinforced established social prejudices, particularly those against women. Nowhere was this more evident than in religious music that was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826416489
• ISBN13: 9780826416483
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"