Music and gender : perspectives from the Mediterranean / edited by Tullia Magrini.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Magrini, Tullia.

Series:

Chicago studies in ethnomusicology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity in music.

Women musicians--Mediterranean Region.

Women musicians.

Music--Mediterranean Region--History and criticism.

Music.

Ethnomusicology.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

viii, 371 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Contents:

Studying gender in Mediterranean musical cultures / T. Magrini

A man's game? Engendered song and the changing dynamics of musical activity in Corsica / C. Bithell

Body and voice : the construction of gender in flamenco / J. Labajo

Those "other women" : dance and femininity among Prespa Albanians / J.C. Sugarman

The gender of the profession : music, dance, and reputation among Balkan muslim Rom women / C. Silverman

Come into play : dance, music, and gender in three Calabrian festivals / G. Plastino

The female dervish and other shady ladies of the Rebetika / G. Holst-Warhaft

Archivists of memory : written folksong collections of twentieth-century Sephardi women / E. Seroussi

Representations and female roles in the Raï song / M. Virolle

Poetry as a strategy of power : the case of Riffian Berber women / T.B. Joseph

Nashaṭ : the gender of musical celebration in Morocco / D. Kapchan

On religion, gender, and performing : female performers and repentance in Egypt / K. van Nieuwkerk

Male, female, and beyond in the culture and music of Roma in Kosovo / S. Pettan

The tearful public sphere : Turkey's "Sun of art," Zeki Müren / M. Stokes

"And she sang a new song" : gender and music on the sacred landscapes of the Mediterranean / P.V. Bohlman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0226501655

0226501663

OCLC:

50755213