Book reviews: Music, Gender, and Sexuality Studies – A Teacher's Guide

When explaining her rationale for launching La Boîte à Pépites, a new record label dedicated to women composers that has just released previously unheard works by Charlotte Sohy, founder Héloïse Luzzati reflected that her own music education had rarely included work that deviated from the Bach, Beethoven and Brahms model. This modus operandi was disturbed in recent years by modules – and festivals, events and programmes – dedicated to ‘women and music’, but, as Jacqueline Warwick explains in Music, gender, and sexuality studies: A teacher's guide, this categorisation is limiting and already outmoded. Warwick, like many educators and practitioners, encourages exploration beyond the gender binary, incorporating examples that reflect a broader human experience.