Jeannie G. Pool

Jeannie Gayle Pool (born November 6, 1951) is an American composer, musicologist, filmmaker, producer, and lecturer. 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. Early life and education Pool was born in Paris, Illinois. At Columbia University, she studied musicology (1977–1980). 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. She was consultant and music archivist for the Paramount Pictures Music Department from 1995 until 2012. Known as “a champion of twentieth-century American women musicians,” she has written books and articles. Before publication of the biography of jazz saxophonist Peggy Gilbert (1905–2007), she produced a documentary on the artist, narrated by Lily Tomlin, which has been screened thro