Rediscovering the muses : women's musical traditions / edited by Kimberly Marshall.

Other author Marshall, Kimberly.
Format Book
Publication InfoBoston : Northeastern University Press, ©1993.
Descriptionxxvii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Presence of the possessed : a parameter in the performance practice of the music of Australian aboriginal women / Helen Payne -- Gender and gender : gender ideology and the female gender player in central Java / Sarah Weiss -- Drum-dance-song ensemble : women's performance in Biblical Israel / Carol Meyers -- Female musicians in Pharaonic Egypt / Emily Teeter -- Private speech, public pain : the power of women's laments in ancient Greek poetry and tragedy / Nancy Sultan -- Traditional role of Greek women in music from antiquity to the end of the Byzantine Empire / Diane Touliatos -- Feminized devotion, musical nuns and the "new -style" Lombard motet of the 1640's / Robert Kendrick -- Symbols, performers, and sponsors : female musical creators in the late Middle Ages / Kimberly Marshall -- "Other Minervas" : creative women at the court of Margaret of Scotland / Paula Higgons -- Renaissance women as patrons of music : the North-Italian courts / William F Prizer -- "Thinking from women's lives" : Francesco Caccini after 1627 / Suzanne G Cusick.
Abstract The idea of the title is that women have long been viewed as the inspiration to men's artistic creation, while women's creative works themselves have been overlooked. This volume draws together essays by musicologists, ethnographers, classicists, and historians to explore female musical activity in both Western and non-Western cultures.
Local noteLittle-297691--305131003841T
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 93028495
ISBN1555531733

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