Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective

by Ellen Koskof

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313243141
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/13/1987
Series:	Contributions in Women's Studies , #79
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)
Lexile:	1420L (what's this?)

About the Author

ELLEN KOSKOFF is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the Eastman School of Music.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Preface
An Introduction to Women, Music, and Culture by Ellen Koskoff
From Singing to Lamenting: Women's Musical Role in a Greek Village by Susan Auerbach
Balkan Women as Preservers of Traditional Music and Culture by Patricia K. Shehan
"Ya Salió de la Mar": Judeo-Spanish Wedding Songs among Moroccan Jews in Canada by Judith R. Cohne
A Sociohistorical Perspective on Tunisian Women as Professional Musicians by L. JaFran Jones
Hazara Women in Afghanistan: Innovators and Preservers of a Musical Tradition by Hiromi Lorraine Sakata
Professional Women in Indian Music: The Death of the Courtesan Tradition by Jennifer Post
Identity and Individuality in an Ensemble Tradition: The Female Vocalist in Java by R. Anderson Sutton
Inversion and Conjuncture: Male and Female Performance among the Temiar of Peninsular Malaysia by Marina Roseman
Female Tayú in the Gidayú Narrative Tradition of Japan by A. Kimi Coaldrake
Musical Expression and Gender Indentity in the Myth and Ritual of the Kalapalo of Central Brazil by Ellen B. Basso
The Joyful Sound: Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States Hymnody Tradition by Esther Rothenbusch
Close Harmony: Early Jazz Styles in the Music of the New Orleans Boswell Sisters by Jane Hassinger
An Investigation into Women-Identified Music in the United States by Karen E. Petersen
The Sound of a Woman's Voice: Gender and Music in a New York Hasidic Community by Ellen Koskoff
Power and Gender in the Musical Experiences of Women by Carol E. Robertson
Index
About the Contributors