Music and gender / edited by Pirkko Moisala and Beverley Diamond ; foreword by Ellen Koskoff.
| Other author | Moisala, Pirkko, editor. |
| Other author | Diamond, Beverley, 1948- editor. |
| Other author | Koskoff, Ellen, 1943- writer of foreword. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2000. |
| Description | xiii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword / Ellen Koskoff -- Introduction. Music and gender: negotiating shifting worlds / Beverley Diamond and Pirkko Moisala -- 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 -- 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 -- Part 3. Gendered musical sites in the redefinition 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 -- 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 -- Epilogue. The place of gender within complex dynamical musical systems / Marcia Herndon. |
| Abstract | International scholars engage in a conversation about music and gender in various cross-culture case studies in an effort to determine how music can help individuals, groups, and nations bridge difficult times of changing values. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 99006791 |
| ISBN | 025202544X (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0252068653 (paper ; acid-free paper) |