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.
Bundel met artikelen over vrouwen in de muziek. Bijdragen: I) Music performance and performativity: 1. Performance and modernity among BaAka Pygmies: a closer look at the mystique of egalitarian foragers in the rain forest / door Michelle Kisliuk: 2. Local constructions of gender in a Finnish pelimanni musicians group / door Helmi Järviluoma: 3. The image of woman in Turkish ballad poetry and music / door Ursula Reinhard: II) Telling lives: 4. The interpretation of gender issues in musical life stories of prince Edward Islanders / door Beverly Diamond: 5. Writing the biography of a black woman blues singer / door Jane Bowers: 6. Gender negotiation of the composer Kaija Saariaho in Finland: the woman composer as Nomadic subject / door Pirkko Moisala: 7. Searching for data about European ladies'orchestras, 1870-1950 / door Margaret Myers: III) Gendered musical sites in the redefinition of nations: 8. Defining women and men in the context of war: images in Croatian popular music in the 1990s / door Naila Ceribasic: 9. Women, music, and 'Chains of the mind': Eritrea and the Tigray region of Ethiopia, 1972-93 / door Cynthia Tse Kimberlin: 10. Past and present gender roles in the traditional community on Kihnu Island in Estonia / door Ingrid Ruütel: IV) Technologies in gendered motion: 11. Women mix engineers and the power of sound / door Boden Sandstrom: 12. Gender, voice, and place: issues of negotiation in a 'Technology, nature, and the body in Hildegard Wetserkamp's 'Breathing room' / door Andra McCartney: 14. No bodies there: absence and presence in acousmatic performance / door Linda Herndon.