Women and music in cross-cultural perspective / edited by Ellen Koskoff.

Other author Koskoff, Ellen, 1943-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Greenwood Press, 1987.
Descriptionxiii, 262 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Women musicians.
Folk music--History and criticism.

SeriesContributions in women's studies ; no. 79
Contributions in women's studies ; no. 79. ^A12573
Contents Introduction to women, music, and culture / Ellen Koskoff -- From singing to lamenting: women's musical role in a Greek village / Susan Auerbach -- Balkan women as preservers of traditional music and culture / Patricia K. Shehan -- "Ya salio de la mar": Judeo-Spanish wedding songs among Moroccan Jews in Canada / Judith R. Cohen -- A sociohistorical perspective on Tunisian women as professional musicians / L. JaFran Jones -- Hazara women in Afghanistan: innovators and preservers of a musical tradition / Hiromi Lorraine Sakata -- Professional women in Indian music: the death of the courtesan tradition / Jennifer Post -- Identity and individuality in an ensemble tradition: the female vocalist in Java / R. Anderson Sutton -- Inversion and conjuncture: male and female performance among the Temiar of Peninsular Malaysia / Marina Roseman -- Female tayu in the Gidaya narrative tradition of Japan / A. Kimi Coaldrake -- Musical expression and gender identity in the myth and ritual of the Kalapalo of central Brazil / Ellen B. Basso -- The joyful sound : women in the nineteenth century United States hymnody tradition / Esther Rothenbusch -- Close harmony: early jazz styles in the music of the New Orleans Boswell Sisters / Jane Hassinger -- An investigation into women-identified music in the United States / Karen E. Petersen -- The sound of a woman's voice: gender and music in a New York Hassidic community / Ellen Koskoff -- Power and gender in the musical experiences of women / Carol E. Robertson.
Abstract This volume offers an introduction to the field of women, music, and culture, examining the implications of gender upon music performance. The presentation focuses on women from many different countries, cultures and historical periods--from the professional musician to the village preserver of traditional music and culture, from the young woman of the 19th century of hymnody tradition of the U.S. to the female tayu or chanter in the male dominated Gidayu narrative tradition of Japan.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographies and index.
LCCN 86033648
ISBN031324314X (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)

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