{"product_id":"9781557283252","title":"Evening the Score: Women in Music and the Legacy of Frederique Petrides","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite the suffragist activities of the 1920s and the heightened pressures brought to bear on traditionally “male-only” institutions in American society during the past three decades, many vocations remain sanctuaries of male dominance. One such area is the classical music world; though, as Jan Bell Groh asserts in \u003ci\u003eEvening the Score\u003c\/i\u003e, inroads into this field have bene made, sometimes at great cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of this work is a unique set of newsletters edited and published by Frédérique Petrides, one of America’s first and most influential female conductors. In Petride’s time, most women musicians were forced to ply their trade in all-female orchestras; through the thirty-seven issues of Women in Music published from 1935 to 1940, the achievements of these musicians were championed, and the prejudices, misconceptions, and deliberately discriminatory policies of many of their male counterparts were exposed and condemned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvening the Score\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious endeavor that seeks not only to preserve these early documents and explain them within the context of the 1930s music industry but also to garner for Petrides the long-overdue praise to which she is entitled. It is at once a celebration and a source of inspiration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034366820592,"sku":"9781557283252","price":15.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781557283252_p0.gif?v=1763755645","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781557283252","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}