![]() ![]() There's nothing too crazy or exotic among them that I've discovered, but the fact that there aren't any women I could name meant I had to read this book to find out more! I was given a copy of the book for free by the publisher to review, but as always this review is my own thoughts. ![]() The women detailed are all what we might think of as more classical musicians or composers and lived in the western world. It just right for a lunch break or before bed reading. I'll be honest, I haven't read all the stories yet, but none of them are terribly long. There's also a nicely written prologue that gives a bit of an overview of women in the world of music and what has at times kept them from being as popularly known as their contemporaries. There are twenty different women profiled in the book, all in historical order from 1098 CE to the last who was born in 1931. It allows many of the women who were well known in their time to be made known now to modern music and history lovers despite the fact that many history of music textbooks leave these ladies out. So this book is a fantastic combination of both. If you get to know me well enough you know I enjoy my history and women's studies. The Love of the Sirens by Edith Zack is a little bit off my typical path of fiction and comics, but I really loved the format of small historical biographies of women in music. ![]()
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