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Sound Foundations:
Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner’s “Women Composers and Music
Technology in the United States”
www.ashgate.com

A book review by
Linda Dusman

Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner makes a truly extraordinary
contribution to music history in her recent Women Composers
and Music Technology in the United States. Published by
Ashgate Press, this extensively researched book, with its
comprehensive bibliography and discography, certainly will
become the cornerstone for future research into the important
contributions of women in the field of music technology. And
while one would not call this book a “page turner” in the
vernacular sense of the term, that is exactly what it is destined
to become in the hands of any woman composer who has
worked in music technology. At least that was my response, as
I read and read, with a growing hunger for information I was
not aware that I craved until I opened this history. It seemed
that every paragraph connected more dots in the spotty
chronology that was in my head-connections between
important academic centers for research in music technology,
important teachers, the music technology industry,
developments on the East Coast, the Midwest, and the West
Coast; and the women who have been there from the very
beginning as researchers, students, teachers, and composers.

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