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

Other author Magrini, Tullia, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Descriptionviii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesChicago studies in ethnomusicology
Chicago studies in ethnomusicology. ^A261178
Contents Studying gender in Mediterranean musical cultures / Tullia Magrini -- A man's game? Engendered song and the changing dynamics of musical activity in Corsica / Caroline Bithell -- Body and voice: the construction of gender in flamenco / Joaquina Labajo -- Those "other women": dance and femininity among Prespa Albanians / Jane C. Sugarman -- The gender of the profession: music, dance, and reputation among Balkan muslim Rom women / Carol Silverman -- Come into play: dance, music, and gender in three Calabrian festivals / Goffredo Plastino -- The female dervish and other shady ladies of the Rebetika / Gail Holst-Warhaft -- Archivists of memory: written folksong collections of twentieth-century Sephardi women / Edwin Seroussi -- Representations and female roles in the Raï song / Marie Virolle -- Poetry as a strategy of power: the case of Riffian Berber women / Terri Brint Joseph -- Nashat: the gender of musical celebration in Morocco / Deborah Kapchan -- On religion, gender, and performing: female performers and repentance in Egypt / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Male, female, and beyond in the culture and music of Roma in Kosovo / Svanibor Pettan -- The tearful public sphere: Turkey's "Sun of art," Zeki Moren / Martin Stokes -- "And she sang a new song": gender and music on the sacred landscapes of the Mediterranean / Philip V. Bohlman.
Abstract Although scholars have long been aware of the crucial roles that gender plays in music, and vice versa, the contributors to this volume are among the first to systematically examine the interactions between the two. This book is also the first to explore the diverse, yet often strikingly similar, musics of the areas bordering the Mediterranean from comparative anthropological perspectives. From Spanish flamenco to Algerian raï, Greek rebetika to Turkish pop music, Sephardi and Berber songs to Egyptian belly dancers, the contributors cover an exceedingly wide range of geographic and musical territories. Individual essays examine musical behavior as representation, assertion, and sometimes transgression of gender identities; compare men's and women's roles in specific musical practices and their historical evolution; and explore how music and gender relate to such issues as ethnicity, nationality, and religion. Anyone studying the musics or cultures of the Mediterranean, or more generally the relations between gender and the arts, will welcome this book.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 2002151281
ISBN0226501655 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226501663 (pbk : alk. paper)

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Music Music Stacks ML3838 .M949 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold