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Hamer, Laura and Brocken, Michael (2025). Bandleader Mrs Mary Hamer and Her Boys: Popular Music and Dance Cultures in Interwar Liverpool. Cambridge Elements: Women in Music. Cambridge University Press.

Hamer, Laura; Minors, Helen Julia; Farnham, Alice; Hamilton, Katy; Haughton, Emma; McCabe, Jessy; MacDonald, Sarah; Vencatasamy, Davina and Wilson, Eleanor (2025). Women's Musical Leadership in Music Industries and Education. In: Hamer, Laura and Minors, Helen Julia eds. The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond. New York: Routledge, pp. 335–357.

Baird, Kenneth and Hamer, Laura (2025). Lilian Baylis: The Visionary Impresario. In: Hamer, Laura and Minors, Helen Julia eds. The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond. New York: Routledge, pp. 127–140.

Hamer, Laura and Minors, Helen Julia eds. (2025). The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond. New York: Routledge.

Hamer, Laura and Minors, Helen Julia (2025). Defining, Surveying and Interrogating Women in Musical Leadership. In: Hamer, Laura and Minors, Helen Julia eds. The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond. New York: Routledge, pp. 1–12.

Hamer, Laura (2025). 'Une Belle Manifestation Féministe': The Formation of the Union des Femmes Professeurs et Compositeurs de Musique. In: Hamer, Laura and Minors, Helen Julia eds. The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond. New York: Routledge, pp. 79–91.

Hamer, Laura and Minors, Helen Julia eds. (2025). The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond. Routledge Music Companions. New York, USA and Oxon, UK: Routledge.

Hamer, Laura (2025). ‘Une belle manifestation féministe’: The Formation of the Union des Femmes Professeurs et Compositeurs de Musique. In: Hamer, Laura and Minors, Helen Julia eds. The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond. Routledge Music Companions. New York and Oxon: Routledge, pp. 79–91.

Baird, Kenneth and Hamer, Laura (2025). Lilian Baylis: The Visionary Impresario. In: Hamer, Laura and Minors, Helen Julia eds. The Routledge Companion to Women and Musical Leadership: The Nineteenth Century and Beyond. Routledge Music Companions. New York, USA and Oxon, UK: Routledge, pp. 127–140.

Hamer, Laura and Minors, Helen Julia (2023). Introducing WMLON: The Women’s Musical Leadership Online Network. In: Cimardi, Linda and Nenić, Iva eds. Women’s Leadership in Music: Modes, Legacies, Alliances. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, pp. 141–152.

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Hamer, Laura (2022). [Book Review] Review of Jeanice Brooks (ed.), Nadia Boulanger and Her World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020). Twentieth-Century Music, 19(1) pp. 159–165.

Hamer, Laura (2021). 'Preface'. In: Hamer, Laura ed. The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xxi-xxix.

Hamer, Laura (2021). 'On the Podium: Women Conductors'. In: Hamer, Laura ed. The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 64–79.

Hamer, Laura ed. (2021). The Cambridge Companion to Women in Music since 1900. Cambridge Companions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hamer, Laura (2020). [Book Review] Paul Dukas, Composer and Critic. Music & Letters, 101(1) pp. 172–174.

Hamer, Laura (2019). Women on the Podium: Issues and Strategies of Women Orchestral Conductors. Estudios bandísticos, 3(1) pp. 21–39.

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Hamer, Laura (2019). Critiquing the Canon: The Role of Criticism in Canon Formation. In: Dingle, Christopher ed. The Cambridge History of Music Criticism. The Cambridge History of Music. Cambridge University Press, pp. 231–248.

Hamer, Laura (2019). The Gender Paradox: Criticism of Women and Women as Critics. In: Dingle, Christopher ed. The Cambridge History of Music Criticism. The Cambridge History of Music. Cambridge University Press, pp. 272–290.

Hamer, Laura (2019). A Cultural Formation: Paul Dukas and Elsa Barraine. In: Minors, Helen Julia and Watson, Laura eds. Paul Dukas: Legacies of a French Musician. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 131–149.

Hamer, Laura (2018). Female Composers, Conductors, Performers: Musiciennes of Interwar France, 1919-1939. Abingdon: Routledge.

Hamer, Laura (2018). 'Every impulse and spring of art seems to have died in me, except for music': Gerard Manley Hopkins as composer. The Musical Times, 159(1945) pp. 27–41.

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Hamer, Laura (2018). Beyond neoclassicism: symphonic form, catharsis, and political commentary in Barraine’s Deuxième symphonie (1938). In: Mawer, Deborah ed. Historical Interplay in French Music and Culture 1860 - 1960. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 121–138.

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Hamer, Laura (2016). [Book Review] La Grande Guerre en musique, Vie et création musicales en France pendant la Première Guerre mondiale by Florence Doé de Maindreville and Stephan Etcharry (eds.). H-France Review, 16(43)

Hamer, Laura (2016). [Review-Article] 'Paths to the Podium' Review-Article of The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger: Performing Past and Future Between the Wars by Jeanice Brooks. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 141(2) pp. 495–504.

Hamer, Laura (2015). [Book Review] Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music by Scott McCarrey and Lesley A. Wright (eds.). Music & Letters, 96(1) pp. 133–135.

Hamer, Laura (2014). [Book Review] Music and Ultra-Modernism in France: A Fragile Consensus, 1913-1939 by Barbara L. Kelly. H-France Review, 14(158)

Hamer, Laura (2014). [Book Review] The Musical Legacy of Wartime France by Leslie A. Sprout. H-France Review, 14(153)

Hamer, Laura and Dingle, Christopher (2014). 'False Memories and Dissonant Truths: Digital Newspaper Archives as a Catalyst for a New Approach to Music Reception Studies'. Studies in the Digital Humanities

Hamer, Laura (2014). [Book Review] Sovereign Feminine: Music and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Germany by Matthew Head. Women's History Review, 23(3) pp. 505–507.

Hamer, Laura and Murray, Christopher Brent (2013). Olivier Messiaen and the prix de Rome as a Rite of Passage. In: Dingle, Christopher and Fallon, Robert eds. Messiaen Perspectives 1: Sources and Influence. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 13–43.

Hamer, Laura (2012). Negating Gender Politics and Challenging the Establishment: Women and the Prix de Rome, 1919-1939’. Women’s History, 70(Autumn) pp. 4–12.

Hamer, Laura (2012). Armande de Polignac: An Aristocratic Compositrice in Fin-de-siècle Paris. In: Fryer, Paul ed. Women in the Arts in the Belle Époque: Essays on Influential Artists, Writers and Performers. Jefferson, North Carolina and London: McFarland, pp. 165–185.

Hamer, Laura (2012). Entre Satie et Stravinsky: les modèles néoclassiques de Germaine Tailleferre. In: Terrien, Pascal ed. Musique française : esthétique et identité en mutation 1892-1992. Paris: Delatour France, pp. 89–96.

Hamer, Laura (2012). [Book Review] Olivier Messiaen, Journalism, 1935-1939 by Stephen Broad. Ars Lyrica, 21 pp. 223–227.

Hamer, Laura (2011). On the conductor’s podium: Jane Evrard and the Orchestre féminin de Paris. The Musical Times, 152(1916) pp. 81–100.

Hamer, Laura (2010). Germaine Tailleferre and Hlne Perdriat's Le Marchand d'oiseaux (1923): French feminist ballet? Studies in Musical Theatre, 4(1) pp. 113–120.

Hall, Mark M. and Hamer, Laura A. (2009). Der Einfluss der Eisenbahn auf das Konzertwesen des 19. Jahrhunderts. In: Angewandte Geoinformatik 2009 - Beiträge zum 21. AGIT-Symposium Salzburg, 8-10 Jul 2009, Salzburg Universität, Austria.