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Catttt Posted 5 years ago
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The emerging gender segregation at the keyboard

Does the highlighted text below imply "it was not proper for women to play Piano and men also had to have special physical properties to be known as capable of becoming a good player"?


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DeNora shows how the emerging gender segregation at the keyboard and the physical markers of musical genius were underpinned by notions from the “science” of physiognomy that was popular at the time.

  

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catttt Does the highlighted text below imply "it was not proper for women to play Piano and men also had to have special physical properties to be known as capable of becoming a good player"? Something like that, but there is nonsense here. The markers were not underpinned.

  • catttt Does the highlighted text below imply "it was not proper for women to play Piano and men also had to have special physical properties to be known as capable of becoming a good player"?
  • Something like that, but there is nonsense here.
  • The markers were not underpinned.
  • Thank *** for such blunders because otherwise it would be hard to tell when they are talking through their hat.
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cattttDoes the highlighted text below imply "it was not proper for women to play Piano and men also had to have special physical properties to be known as capable of becoming a good player"?

Something like that, but there is nonsense here. The markers were not underpinned. Thank *** for such blunders because otherwise it would be hard to tell when they are

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Does the highlighted text below imply "it was not proper for women to play Piano to play the piano, and men also had to have special physical properties to be known as capable of becoming a good player"?


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DeNora shows how the emerging gender segregation at

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