Jeannie Gayle Pool (born November 6, 1951)[1] is an American composer, musicologist, filmmaker, producer, and lecturer.[2] An expert on and advocate for women in classical and popular music, she founded the International Congress on Women in Music (now
International Alliance for Women in Music), has published books and articles, and has had compositions performed internationally.
After completing her studies, Pool taught music at universities and worked as a radio and music producer.[1] She began composing music for stage productions and youth orchestras, as well as sacred and orchestral works. Her compositions have been performed internationally.
She is a consultant for film and television music productions on music rights. Through her business Music Legacy Services, she documents and appraises film and TV music archival collections. She was Executive Director of the Society for the Preservation of Film Music (now
The Film Music Society) from 1990 to 2002.[5] She was consultant and music archivist for the
Paramount Pictures Music Department from 1995 until 2012.[6]
Known as "a champion of twentieth-century American women musicians,"[7] she has written books and articles. Before publication of the biography of jazz saxophonist
Peggy Gilbert (1905–2007),[8] she produced a documentary on the artist,[9] narrated by
Lily Tomlin, which has been screened throughout the United States, reviewed in DownBeat[10] and IAWM Journal.[11]
In addition to authoring the biography of American composer
Zenobia Powell Perry (1908–2004),[12] she is the publisher of Perry's music.[13] She also reconstructed and orchestrated Perry's opera Tawawa House about the
Underground Railroad; it was performed by Townsend Opera (now Opera Modesto) in 2014, and at the Presidio Chapel in San Francisco in 2019.[14]
An award-winning radio host and producer, Pool was heard weekly on
KPFK-fm Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles on her program Music of the Americas, which featured interviews and recordings of contemporary composers and performers (1980–1997). She produces recordings for Cambria Master Recordings,[15] an independent California label that specializes in American music.
Pool, Jeannie Gayle; Wright, H. Stephen (2011). A Research Guide to Film and Television Music in the United States. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
ISBN9780810876880.
OCLC651011993.[22]
Pool, Jeannie Gayle (2009). American Composer Zenobia Powell Perry: Race and Gender in the 20th Century. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press.
ISBN9780810863767.
OCLC239233280.[23] Reviewed in MLA Notes.[24]
Pool, Jeannie Gayle (2009). Passions of Musical Women : The Story of the International Congress on Women in Music. Los Angeles: Jaygayle Music Books.
ISBN9780557055456.
OCLC317559465.,[25] reviewed in Journal of the IAWM.[26]
Pool, Jeannie Gayle (2008). Peggy Gilbert & Her All-Girl Band. Foreword by Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press.
ISBN978-0-8108-6102-2.
OCLC173749535.[27] Reviewed in Popular Music and Society,[28]Music Reference Services Quarterly,[29] and IAWM Journal.[30]
Pool, Jeannie G. (1986). California Mission Music : A Bibliography. Northridge, CA: California State University, Northridge, Department of Music.
OCLC33893811.[31]
Pool, Jeannie G. (1986). Handbook, Teaching the History of Women in Music. Northridge, CA: California State University, Northridge, Department of Music.
OCLC15138299.[32]
Fry, Stephen M.; Pool, Jeannie G. (1985). The Story of the All Women's Orchestras in California, 1893–1955 : Bibliography. Northridge, CA: California State University, Northridge, Department of Music.
OCLC12058193.[33]