Suzanne G. Cusick (born 1954) is a music historian and

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

living in and working in

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, where she is a Professor of Music at the Faculty of Arts and Science at the

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. Her specialties are the music of seventeenth-century

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approaches to music history and criticism, and

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in music. Cusick has been in charge of editing ''Women and Music. A Journal of Gender and Culture'', the first journal which focusses on the relationship of gender and sexuality to musical culture. Her book ''Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court: Music and the Circulation of Power'' () was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2009, for which she received the 2010 book prize of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. This book deals with the life and works of

Francesca Caccini Francesca Caccini (; 18 September 1587 – after 1641) was an Italian composer, singer, lutenist, poet, and music teacher of the early Baroque era. She was also known by the nickname "La Cecchina" , given to her by the Florentines and probably a ...

while in the employment of the Medici court. Suzanne Cusick was made an honorary member of the

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in November 2014.

References

*http://music.as.nyu.edu/object/suzannecusick.html *http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo5806979.html *S. CUSICK, Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court, Music and the Circulation of Power (University of Chicago Press, 2009). {{DEFAULTSORT:Cusick, Suzanne G. Living people Music historians Women writers about music 21st-century American women writers 1954 births New York University

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