Music and Gender
Perspectives from the Mediterranean
392 pages, 18 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 musical example 6 x 9
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2003
Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Cloth $75.00
ISBN: 9780226501659
Published June 2003
Paper $26.00
ISBN: 9780226501666
Published June 2003
Acknowledgments Introduction: Studying Gender in Mediterranean Musical Cultures Tullia Magrini 1. A Man's Game? Engendered Song and the Changing Dynamics of Musical Activity in Corsica Caroline Bithell 2. Body and Voice: The Construction of Gender in Flamenco Jaquina Labajo 3. Those "Other Women": Dance and Femininity among Prespa Albanians Jane C. Sugarman 4. The Gender of the Profession: Music, Dance, and Reputation among Balkan Muslim Rom Women Carol Silverman 5. Come into Play: Dance, Music, and Gender in Three Calabrian Festivals Goffredo Plastino 6. The Female Dervish and Other Shady Ladies of Rebetika Gail Holst-Warhaft 7. Archivists of Memory: Written Folksong Collections of Twentieth-Century Sephardi Women Edwin Seroussi 8. Representations and Female Roles in the Raï Song Marie Virolle 9. Poetry as a Strategy of Power: The Case of Riffian Berber Women Terri Brint Joseph 10. Nashat: The Gender of Musical Celebration in Morocco Deborah Kapchan 11. On Religion, Gender, and Performing: Female Performers and Repentance in Egypt Karin van Nieuwkerk 12. Male, Female, and Beyond the Culture and Music of Roma in Kosovo Svanibor Pettan 13. The Tearful Public Sphere: Turkey's "Sun of Art," Zeki Müren Martin Stokes 14. "And She Sang a New Song": Gender and Music on the Sacred Landscapes of the Mediterranean Philip V. Bohlman List of Contributors Index
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