Share:

Category Books

Music and Gender »

Authors: Pirkko Moisala (Editor), Beverley Diamond (Editor), Ellen Koskoff
ISBN-13: 9780252068652, ISBN-10: 0252068653
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Date Published: June 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Foreword
	Introduction: Music and Gender - Negotiating Shifting Worlds	1
1	Performance and Modernity among BaAka Pygmies: A Closer Look at the Mystique of Egalitarian Foragers in the Rain Forest	25
2	Local Constructions of Gender in a Finnish Pelimanni Musicians Group	51
3	The Image of Woman in Turkish Ballad Poetry and Music	80
4	The Interpretation of Gender issues in Musical Life Stories of Prince Edward Islanders	99
5	Writing the Biography of a Black Woman Blues Singer	140
6	Gender Negotiation of the Composer Kaija Saariaho in Finland: The Woman Composer as Nomadic Subject	166
7	Searching for Data about European Ladies' Orchestras, 1870-1950	189
8	Defining Women and Men in the Context of War: Images in Croatian Popular Music in the 1990s	219
9	Women, Music, and "Chains of the Mind": Eritrea and the Tigray Region of Ethiopia, 1972-93	239
10	Past and Present Gender Roles in the Traditional Community on Kihnu Island in Estonia	266
11	Women Mix Engineers and the Power of Sound	289
12	Gender, Voice, and Place: Issues of Negotiation in a "Technology in Music Program"	306
13	Cyborg Experiences: Contradictions and Tensions of Technology, Nature, and the Body in Hildegard Westerkamp's "Breathing Room"	317
14	No Bodies There: Absence and Presence in Acousmatic Performance	336
	Epilogue: The Place of Gender within Complex, Dynamic Musical Systems	347
	Contributors	361
	Index	365