Music and Gender
Perspectives from the Mediterranean
392 pages
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18 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 musical example
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6 x 9
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© 2003
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Table of Contents

Contents
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
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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