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DESCRIPTION:The Doctoral Colloquium is open to all.\n\nDoctoral Colloquium:
  Marta Beszterda\, PhD candidate - Musicology\n\n \n\n\n	Find out more abou
 t attending events at Schulich\n\n\n\nTitle: 'Female Exceptionalism\, Line
 age\, and Labor: The Role of Women in the Career of Grażyna Bacewicz (1909
 -1969)'\n\n \n\nBiography: Marta Beszterda is a PhD candidate in Musicolog
 y and Feminist Studies at 91������. Her doctoral dissertation exp
 lores the relationship between music labor\, gender\, identity\, and agenc
 y under state socialism in postwar Poland. The project is supported by Fon
 ds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC). Marta presented he
 r work at many international conferences\, including the annual meetings o
 f the American Musicological Society\, the Association for Slavic\, East E
 uropean\, and Eurasian Studies\, and the British Association for Slavonic 
 and East European Studies. In 2021\, she received the second prize in the 
 yearly competition organized by the Société Québécoise de Recherche en Mus
 ique (SQRM) for her conference paper “Women in Polish Postwar Musical Cult
 ure: The Case of Zofia Lissa.” In 2022\, Marta co-organized the first inte
 rnational conference “Women and Gender in Art Music of the Eastern Bloc” w
 ith the support of the Royal Musical Association (UK).\n\nAbstract: Over f
 ifty years after her death\, the legacy of Polish-Lithuanian composer and 
 violinist Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) has been primarily addressed within
  the framework of female exceptionalism. Yet\, to date\, the fact that she
  was an isolated case of success as a Polish woman composer throughout 195
 0s and 1960s has not led to a critical examination of the politics of gend
 er in the postwar Polish compositional scene. This paper complicates exist
 ing interpretations of Bacewicz’s career\, shedding light on the interconn
 ectedness between the composer and the women in her life: her teacher Nadi
 a Boulanger\, mother Maria Modlińska\, and sister and a de facto administr
 ative assistant Wanda Bacewicz. First\, I trace overlaps between Boulanger
 ’s and Bacewicz’s practices of self-fashioning as a hardworking and except
 ional woman. Next\, I consider the Warsaw positivism movement provenience 
 of Modlińska’s values around work and womanhood as influential in shaping 
 Bacewicz’s extraordinary dedication to work and her perseverance in pursui
 ng a composing career as a woman. Finally\, I turn towards the importance 
 of emotional\, domestic\, and administrative support of Bacewicz’s mother 
 and sister throughout the composer’s career\, revealing the ubiquity of wo
 men’s hidden work in music history. Here\, I follow Samantha Ege’s work on
  female relationships and support networks as factors that have a tangible
  effect on the growth of a woman composer’s career. Drawing on feminist ap
 proaches by Ege\, Rachel Lumsden\, Kimberly Francis\, and Ellie Hisama\, t
 his paper is a case study on women and gender in musical modernism\, inter
 woven with Polish mid-century debates around nation\, music\, and gender.
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LOCATION:A-832\, Elizabeth Wirth Music Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 
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SUMMARY:Doctoral Colloquium (Music) | Marta Beszterda
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