This volume brings together thirteen musicological perspectives on the creativity of women
composers and the question of 'femininity' in Southeastern-European musical cultures from 1918
on. In the questions about and beyond a 'female aesthetics' socio-cultural approaches to the
lives of creative women prove to be indispensable for contemporary musicological gender
research because highly complex facts of musical life and social realities in political
systems cannot be separated from each other. By this means the exclusion and marginalization of
women composers in the national and international music establishment as well as strategies
for overcoming these systems are made visible and brought to consciousness. This volume
therefore focusses on the social cultural and biological preconditions of cultural action
and intends to arouse curiosity for multi-layered realities it aims to increase the reception
of the compositional oeuvre of women composers from Southeastern Europe by the global music
scene the musicological discourse and an engaged audience.
