Dichotonies
Subtitle: gender and music
By: edited by Beate Neumeier
Series: American studies -- v. 181; American studies (Munich, Germany) -- v. 181.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9783825357016
Subjects: Gender identity in music; Music; Instruction and study; Muziek; Sex in music; Sekseverschillen; Congresses; Musik; Geschlechterforschung
Other titles: Gender and music
Notes: Revised versions of papers originally presented at the conference Klang Körper, held in Cologne, Germany in June 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Dichotonies : gender and music : an introduction / Beate Neumeier; title: Music and gender : a historical and theoretical dialogue : on a theoretical note. Silencing and silence : femininity and the ambivalence of self-articulation. Silencing voices / Elisabeth Bronfen ; Silent voices / Melanie Unseld ; Feminist and queer approaches to music / Chris Weedon ; Why gender still (as always) matters in music studies / Susan McClary ; Feminism, music theory, time, and embodiment / Fred Maus; title: Music and the gendering of sound : on an auditory/vocal/sounding note. From "Heroische Bogenstriche" to "Waldeinsamkeit" : gender and genre in Judith Weir's Heroic strokes of the bow and Blond Eckbert / David Beard ; Thomas Adès and the "narrative agendas" of "absolute music" / Kenneth Gloag ; The "amen" breakbeat as fratriarchal totem / Andrew Whelan ; The twittering machine : Kate Bush's Becoming-bird / Philipp Hofmann; title: Music and the gendering of text : on a textual note. Like perfect music unto noble words : gender metaphors and Victorian music poetry / Regular Hohl Trillini ; Gender and sociability within the Schöne Müllerin Liederspiel : the case of Luise Hensel and the gardener songs ; Sexy (no no no) : the cool and the hot in female popular song / Barbara Bradby ; Aiming at a mirror : towards a critique of gangsta masculinity / Leonard Kreuzer; title: Music and the gendering of performance : on a performance note. The sex of song : brigitte Fassbänder's Winterreise / Lawrence Kramer ; Haunting the house of gender : Marilyn Manson and Gothic rock / Carmen Birkle ; Arabesk : nomadic tales, oriental beasts, and hybrid looks / Ralph Poole ; Dancing to the jailhouse rock : the pop prison / Dirk Schulz; title: Intermedial crossovers of music and gender : music in fiction, drama, film, ritual : on an intermedial note. Effeminate idolatry : the word and the violin of flesh / Sylvia Mieszkowski ; The cultural logic of bad taste : country music, "white trash", and gender politics / Mita Banerjee ; Sound tracks to the frontier : gender, difference and music in the American road movie / Birgitt Däwes ; Contemporary playwrights staging music and gender / Beate Neumeier.