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

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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. She was also one of the first scholars to write about the use of music torture in the War on Terror. Cusick has been in charge of editing ''Women and Music. A Journal of Gender and Culture'', the first journal which focuses 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 – most likely between 1641 and 1645) 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 Floren ...

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

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in November 2014. She was president of the society from 2018 to 2020.

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 American musicologists American women musicologists American music historians American women historians American women writers about music 21st-century American women writers 1954 births New York University faculty

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