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Music and Gender
Tullia Magrini
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Description for Music and Gender
Paperback. The contributors explore the intimate relationships between music & gender, across the wide range of cultures around the Mediterranean. Essays examine musical behaviour as representation, assertion, and transgression of gender identities. Editor(s): Magrini, Tullia. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 376 pages, 19 halftones, 1 musical example. BIC Classification: 1QSM; AV; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 644.
Although scholars have long been aware of the crucial roles that gender plays in music, and vice versa, the contributors to this volume are among the first to systematically examine the interactions between the two. This book is also the first to explore the diverse, yet often strikingly similar, musics of the areas bordering the Mediterranean from comparative anthropological perspectives. From Spanish flamenco to Algerian rai, Greek rebetika to Turkish pop music, Sephardi and Berber songs to Egyptian belly dancers, the contributors cover an exceedingly wide range of geographic and musical territories. Individual essays examine musical behavior as representation, assertion ... Read more
Although scholars have long been aware of the crucial roles that gender plays in music, and vice versa, the contributors to this volume are among the first to systematically examine the interactions between the two. This book is also the first to explore the diverse, yet often strikingly similar, musics of the areas bordering the Mediterranean from comparative anthropological perspectives. From Spanish flamenco to Algerian rai, Greek rebetika to Turkish pop music, Sephardi and Berber songs to Egyptian belly dancers, the contributors cover an exceedingly wide range of geographic and musical territories. Individual essays examine musical behavior as representation, assertion ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Series
Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226501666
SKU
V9780226501666
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