Cook, S., & Tsou, J. (1994). Cecilia reclaimed: Feminist perspectives on gender and music. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
In ten scholars’ articles contributing to the new field of feminist musicology, they explain that music has shaped the notions of gender and that gender has shaped the music.

Dunn, L. & Jones, N. (1994). Embodied voices: Representing female vocality in western culture. New York: Cambridge University Press.
A collection of essays that discuss the differences in female vocals from male vocals, therefore effect how a work is performed.

Fleming, R. (2004). The inner voice: The making of a singer. New York: Viking.
An autobiography about a famous singer and how she deals with balancing her personal life and her career on a regular basis.

Jones, G. (1975). Corregidora. Boston: Beacon Press.
A novel about a blues singer who hates a slave master for fathering both her grandmother and mother.

Koskoff, E. (Ed.). (1989). Women and music in cross-cultural perspective. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
A collection of essays that combine the field of women with the field of music and discusses how that affects the culture.

Neuls-Bates, C. (1996). Women in music: An anthology of source readings from the Middle Ages to the present. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
A compilation of accounts by female musicians including: Clara Schumann, Marian Anderson, and Lillian Nordica.