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Susan McClary
Susan McClary is Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Best known for her book, Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (U. Minnesota Press, 1991), she is a specialist in the cultural criticism and critical theory of music, especially in the European and Western popular canons. She has written widely on subjects like feminism, narrativity and gender issues as expressed in the European music tradition, and is an avid pianist and harpsichordist.
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Susan McClary, Professor of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, gives some honest advice to people considering a career in music about the scope of the commitment that the field requires - the thousands of hours of practice, the potential for failure, the hard work, and the risks that it will all amount to nothing.



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November 2007
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