Research Catalog

Title

Music and gender / edited by Pirkko Moisala and Beverley Diamond ; foreword by Ellen Koskoff.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Moisala, Pirkko.
• Diamond, Beverley, 1948-

Description

xiii, 376 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Sex in music
• Women musicians

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 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 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 -- 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.

Call Number

JME 00-649

ISBN

• 025202544X (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0252068653 (paper : acid-free paper)

LCCN

99006791

OCLC

41981850

Title

Music and gender / edited by Pirkko Moisala and Beverley Diamond ; foreword by Ellen Koskoff.

Imprint

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Moisala, Pirkko.

Diamond, Beverley, 1948-

Research Call Number

JME 00-649