George Upton Women In Music

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The nineteenth century provided female musicians and composers with a multitude of restrictions and hindrances that were successful in precluding female composers from attaining great success. During this time, George Upton wrote an article about women’s role in music that by today’s standards would be deemed sexist and discriminatory; however, Upton’s views were representative of society’s at that time. Upton noted women’s lack of success in music due to a number of “reasons,” ranging from emotional incapacity to an inability to objectively listen and compose (Upton, 1895, p. 23,25,30). However, it is now understood that these hindrances were the result of an amalgamation of enforced gender roles, societal restraints, and canonical ideologies —rather than the emotional and scientific capacities women were thought to have lacked at the time—that prevented female composers from achieving considerable success and positions amongst the great works of the canon. …show more content…
Although Upton’s ideas were discriminatory, they were representative of the ideas shared by society at the time. Upton provided “reasons” for the gender disparity including: woman’s inability to endure struggles and cope with criticism, a lack of objective thinking to accurately understand and compose music, and emotional incapacity (Upton, 1895, p. 23,25,30). However these “reasons” were counterfactual, and the disparity was actually the result of society’s ideology similar to that of Upton’s that perpetuated and enforced gender roles that limited women’s ability influence
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