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Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity
Ruth Hellier
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Description for Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity
Hardback. Voices of women heard worldwide Editor(s): Hellier, Ruth. Num Pages: 264 pages, 17 black and white photographs, 2 charts, 1 musical example. BIC Classification: AV; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 30. Weight in Grams: 567.
Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, Women Singers in Global Contexts is a new departure in the study of women's worldwide music-making. Ten unique women constitute the heart of this volume: each one has engaged her singing voice as a central element in her life, experiencing various opportunities, tensions, and choices through her vocality. These biographical and poetic narratives demonstrate how the act of vocalizing embodies dynamics of representation, power, agency, activism, and risk-taking. Engaging with performance practice, politics, and constructions of gender through vocality and vocal aesthetics, this collection offers valuable insights into the experiences of specific women singers in a range of sociocultural contexts. Contributors trace themes and threads that include childhood, families, motherhood, migration, fame, training, transmission, technology, and the interface of private lives and public identities.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252037245
SKU
V9780252037245
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About Ruth Hellier
Ruth Hellier is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology at University of California Santa Barbara, where she also teaches performance studies and theater.
Reviews for Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity
"An ambitious collection of essays on women singers by leading scholars in ethnomusicology and related fields. The volume will be welcomed by students of a variety of disciplines including ethnomusicology and women's studies."
Anne K. Rasmussen, author of Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia "An intellectually stimulating overview of how such musicians manage dynamically to present themselves with their own cultures. Highly recommended."
Choice "Each chapter engages with multiple contexts, demonstrating the ways in which women from various backgrounds mediate performance and gendered expectations inside and outside their home communities... Impactful intersections of different identity categories
gender, class, profession, or avocation ("singer"), location, age, sexuality, education, race, and marital and familial status
emerge as central to the work"
Ethnomusicology "The first ethnographic collection to focus on individual female singers. . . . The range of the essays is impressive, featuring women of different generations from five continents. . . . this volume will be valuable to scholars interested in a variety of aspects related to biography and performance."
Journal of Singing
Anne K. Rasmussen, author of Women, the Recited Qur'an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia "An intellectually stimulating overview of how such musicians manage dynamically to present themselves with their own cultures. Highly recommended."
Choice "Each chapter engages with multiple contexts, demonstrating the ways in which women from various backgrounds mediate performance and gendered expectations inside and outside their home communities... Impactful intersections of different identity categories
gender, class, profession, or avocation ("singer"), location, age, sexuality, education, race, and marital and familial status
emerge as central to the work"
Ethnomusicology "The first ethnographic collection to focus on individual female singers. . . . The range of the essays is impressive, featuring women of different generations from five continents. . . . this volume will be valuable to scholars interested in a variety of aspects related to biography and performance."
Journal of Singing