A feminist ethnomusicology : writings on music and gender / Ellen Koskoff ; foreword by Suzanne Cusick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koskoff, Ellen, 1943- author.

Series:

New perspectives on gender in music.

New perspectives on gender in music

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role in music.

Feminism and music.

Ethnomusicology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2014.

Summary:

One of the pioneers of gender studies in music, Ellen Koskoff edited the foundational text Women and Music in Cross Cultural Perspective, and her career evolved in tandem with the emergence and development of the field.In this intellectual memoir, Koskoff describes her journey through the maze of social history and scholarship related to her work examining the intersection of music and gender. Koskoff collects new, revised, and hard-to-find published material from mid-1970s through 2010 to trace the evolution of ethnomusicological thinking about women, gender, and music, offering a perspective of how questions emerged and changed in those years, as well as Koskoff's reassessment of the early years and development of the field. Her goal: a personal map of the different paths to understanding she took over the decades, and how each inspired, informed, and clarified her scholarship. For example, Koskoff shows how a preference for face-to-face interactions with living people served her best in her research, and how her now-classic work within Brooklyn's Hasidic community inflamed her feminist consciousness while leading her into ethnomusicological studies.An uncommon merging of retrospective and rumination, A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender offers a witty and disarmingly frank tour through the formative decades of the field and will be of interest to ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, scholars of the history and development of feminist thought, and those engaged in fieldwork.Includes a foreword by Suzanne Cusick framing Koskoff's career and an extensive bibliography provided by the author.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: 1976-1990

Chapter 1 From Women to Gender

Chapter 2 Introduction to Women and Music in Cross-cultural Perspective

Chapter 3 Both In and Between: Women's Musical Roles in Ritual Life

Part II: 1990-2000

Chapter 4 Shifting Realities

Chapter 5 Gender, Power, and Music

Chapter 6 Miriam Sings Her Song: The Self and the Other in Anthropological Discourse

Chapter 7 The Language of the Heart: Music in Lubavitcher Life

Chapter 8 When Women Play: The Relationship between Musical Instruments and Gender Style

Chapter 9 "Well, That's Why We Won't Take You, Okay?": Women, Representation, and the Myth of the Unitary Self

Part II: 2000-2012

Chapter 10 Unresolved Issues

Chapter 11 The Ins and Outs on In and Out

Chapter 12 Out in Left Field/Left Out of the Field: Postmodern Scholarship, Feminist/Gender Studies, Musicology, and Ethnomusicology

Chapter 13 Imaginary Conversations

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252096402

0252096401

OCLC:

885455916