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Rediscovering the muses : women's musical traditions
- Title
- Rediscovering the muses : women's musical traditions / edited by Kimberly Marshall.
- Publication
- Boston : Northeastern University Press, [1993], ©1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | ML82 .R43 1993 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Marshall, Kimberly.
- Description
- xxvii, 304 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Presence of the Possessed: A Parameter in the Performance Practice of the Music of Australian Aboriginal Women / Helen Payne -- 2. Gender and Gender: Gender Ideology and the Female Gender Player in Central Java / Sarah Weiss -- 3. The Drum-Dance-Song Ensemble: Women's Performance in Biblical Israel / Carol Meyers -- 4. Female Musicians in Pharaonic Egypt / Emily Teeter -- 5. Private Speech, Public Pain: The Power of Women's Laments in Ancient Greek Poetry and Tragedy / Nancy Sultan -- 6. The Traditional Role of Greek Women in Music from Antiquity to the End of the Byzantine Empire / Diane Touliatos -- 7. Feminized Devotion, Musical Nuns, and the "New-Style" Lombard Motet of the 1640s / Robert Kendrick -- 8. Symbols, Performers, and Sponsors: Female Musical Creators in the Late Middle Ages / Kimberly Marshall -- 9. The "Other Minervas": Creative Women at the Court of Margaret of Scotland / Paula Higgins -- 10. Renaissance Women as Patrons of Music: The North-Italian Courts / William F. Prizer -- 11. "Thinking from Women's Lives": Francesca Caccini after 1627 / Suzanne G. Cusick.
- ISBN
- 1555531733
- 1555532195 (pbk.)
- 9781555532192 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 93028495
- OCLC
- 28634707
- ocm28634707
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries