Annegret Fauser

La Guerre en dentelles: Women and the Prix de Rome in French Cultural Politics

In 1903, one hundred years after the Prix de Rome had been created in music composition, women were allowed to participate in the competition for the first time. In 1913, Lili Boulanger became the first woman to win the prize, crowning the efforts of three others-Juliette Toutain, Helene Fleury, and Nadia Boulanger-to achieve this goal. Their stories are fascinating case studies of the strategies women employed to achieve success and public recognition within the complex framework of French cultural politics at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The Scholar behind the Medal: Edward J. Dent (1876–1957) and the Politics of Music History

ABSTRACT This article engages with issues of musical historiography and politics – mainly in the 1930s and 1940s – through the example of Edward J. Dent, a towering figure of international musical and musicological life during that period. Dents career was tightly interwoven with musical and musicological practice both in Britain and in the wider Western world. It offers a fascinating access point to European musical modernism on the one hand, and to mid-century concerns with the uses of music history on the other. In this article, I focus on these aspects of Dents career and their intersections by exploring first Dents involvement with the International Society for Contemporary Music, before turning to two further and closely related issues: Dents scholarly work of that period – especially his turn to Handel – and his involvement in international cultural politics during the 1930s and 1940s.