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Women in Music Production
A Contextualized History From the 1890s to the 1980s
INTRODUCTION
This chapter’s purpose is to provide a foundational sketch of the historical participation of women within the mainstream of music production from the late nineteenth century to the early 1980s. The context of the survey is Anglo-American, in keeping with the geographical focus of the bulk of the academic literature concerning music production that has accrued to date. My choice of the 1980s as the upper limit of the time frame is intended to suggest that women have by this point become, if not necessarily a normalized presence in the field of record production, then certainly a visible one, and one that is also quantifiable in terms ...
