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The Status Of Women: Female Gender Associations In West Chester University’S School Of Music Archive, Katharine Godfrey
The Status Of Women: Female Gender Associations In West Chester University’S School Of Music Archive, Katharine Godfrey
West Chester University Master’s Theses
Research in the West Chester University (WCU) School of Music (SOM) archive displayed a history of women’s involvement in music dating back to its opening in 1871. The archive provided the resources for an examination of the representation of female instrumentalists at WCU in a few key areas over more than a century. As trends of gender stereotyping in music shifted, their effects can be seen on women at WCU.
The research conducted in the archive provided three sets of primary documents that informed this project. Those primary documents include the Quarto-Centennial History of the West Chester State Normal School …