Women's voices across musical worlds / edited by Jane A. Bernstein.
Bernstein, Jane A.
2004
ML82 .W697 2004 (Mapit)
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Title Women's voices across musical worlds / edited by Jane A. Bernstein.
ISBN 1555535887 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1555535895 (alk. paper)
Publication Details Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2004.
Language English
Description xvi, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number ML82 .W697 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 780/.82
Summary This book is the first to explore the musical activities and expressions of women from a thematic perspective. Written by a distinguished group of musicologists and ethnomusicologists, the essays collected here provide a cross-cultural and cross-historical view of the roles women have played as creators and performers and the representation of women in world, popular, and western art music. Organized in five sections, the readings deal with a broad spectrum of topics and approaches about women, gender, and sexuality in music across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas from the twelfth century to the present. Included are such significant themes as class and sexual politics in domestic and professional music making, the sequestration of female musical performance, the lament, gender identity through performance, and women singers as empowered voices of the people. In celebrating the diversity of women's musical voices, this eclectic collection will appeal to students, scholars, and general readers interested in music history, world music, and women's studies.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-340) and index.
Added Author Bernstein, Jane A.
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Public voices, private voices
Cloistered voices
Empowered voices
Lamenting voices
Gendered voices and performance.

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