Music and gender
By: edited by Pirkko Moisala and Beverley Diamond ; foreword by Ellen Koskoff.
Contributors: Moisala, Pirkko.; Diamond, Beverley, 1948-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Women musicians.; Sex in music.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Music and gender : Negotiating shifting worlds / Beverley Diamond and Pirkko Moisala; title: Part 1. Music performance and performativity: Performance and modernity among BaAka pygmies : a closer look at the mystique of egalitarian foragers in the rainforest / Michelle Kisliuk. Local constructions of gender in a Finnish pelimanni musicians group / Helmi Järviluoma. The image of woman in Turkish ballad poetry and music / Ursula Reinhard; title: Part 2. Telling lives: The interpretation of gender issues in musical life stories of Prince Edward Islanders / Beverley Diamond. Writing the biography of a black woman blues singer / Jane Bowers. Gender negotiation of composer Kaija Saariaho in Finland : the woman composer as nomadic subject / Pirkko Moisala. Searching for data about European ladies' orchestras, 1870-1950 / Margaret Myers; title: Part 3. Gendered musical sites in the refefinition of nations: Defining women and men in the context of war : images in Croatian popular music in the 1990s / Naila Ceribašić. Women, music, and "chains of the mind" : Eritrea and the Tigray region of Ethiopia, 1972-93 / Cynthia Tse Kimberlin. Past and present gender roles in the traditional community on Kihnu Island in Estonia / Ingrid Rüütel; title: Part 4: Technologies in gendered motion. Women mix engineers and the power of sound / Boden Sandstrom. Gender, voice, and place : issues of negotiation in a "technology in music program" / Karen Pegley. Cyborg experiences : contradictions and tensions of technology, nature, and the body in Hildegard Westerkamp's "Breathing room" / Andra McCartney. No bodies there : absence and presence in acousmatic performance / Linda Dusman; title: Epilogue: The place of gender within complex dynamical musical systems / Marcia Herndon.