Item Detail
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Grattan, Virginia L.
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American women songwriters : a biographical dictionary
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Book
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Westport, Conn.
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1993
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Greenwood Press
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xv, 279 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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0313285101; 9780313285103
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Women composers--United States--Biography--Dictionaries.
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Songwriters; Women; United States
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ML 106 .U3 G73 1993
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Grattan, Virginia L. American Women Songwriters: A Biographical Dictionary. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press,1993.
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Biographical dictionary of American women songwriters.
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Contains information for 181 women who have written popular and motion picture songs, musicals, country, blues, jazz, folk, gospel, hymns, and nineteenth-century songs. Limited to native-born American women.
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Divided into ten sections according to type of music or time period of composition. Each section begins with an explanation for its particular style or era. Entries are then listed alphabetically by surname. Artists who have written music in many styles are listed in the area where the most work was done. Also contains an artist index and a Repertory Guide--Vocal.
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Cross-referenced.
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Index words referring to chapter would be helpful.
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Pendle, Karin. American Reference Books Annual 25 (1994): 1325.
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BYU Mus Ref
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3282