Mission Statement

The Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) promotes gender equity and feminist scholarship in areas related to music theory and serves as a repository of information about women and music. The CSW serves the Society for Music Theory in matters that are critical to all music theorists.

Members

• Chair: Patricia Hall (2012)
• Catherine Nolan (2012), Ron Rodman (2012), Inessa Bazayev (2013), Abby Shupe (2013), Brad Osborn (2014) and Jane Clendinning (2014)

Activities

• Monitors and advocates for compliance with practices that promote gender equity, both within the Society and in the field of music theory in general.
• Sponsors a special session at the Annual Meeting.
• Holds a no-host luncheon at the Annual Meeting to discuss matters that relate to the mission of the CSW; all interested members of the SMT are invited to come to this.
• Maintains a CSW Affiliates Facebook group web page to help members stay current on CSW activities and to get involved in related discussions and events; all interested members of the SMT are invited to join this Facebook group.
• Maintains resources that relate to the mission of the CSW (see below).
• Maintains an email list discussion group.
• Sponsors a conference proposal advising program for junior female music theorists. If you are interested, please send an email to Patricia Hall with your name, preferred method of contact, and any special requests, and you will be contacted shortly.

2011 Meeting Activities (past)

At the 2011 Annual Meeting, CSW sponsored a session entitled "The Current State of Feminist Scholarship in Music Theory." The session was as follows:

• Patricia Hall (University of California, Santa Barbara), Chair
• Fred Maus (University of Virginia): Musical Experience and Power
• Marion A. Guck (University of Michigan: Between Music and Listener
• Marianne Kielian-Gilbert (Indiana University):No longer in its place – gender and listening in the grain
• Judy Lochhead (Stony Brook University): “Now that Difference is in Vogue…”

Resources

• SMT Guidelines for Non-Sexist Language
• Guidelines for Interview Questions, both for those being interviewed and for those conducting interviews
• Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music
• Archive of Syllabi from Women & Music Courses
• Five documents from the 2008 SMT conference in Nashville: CSW Report on Gender Imbalance, Gender in Theory Journals, and three PowerPoint presentations: Gender Online Survey, Gender in SMT, and Focus Group Findings.
• Related links

Contact information

For questions about the CSW and its activities, please contact Patricia Hall, CSW Chair.