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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2000

Description:

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

Subject:

Women musicians.
Sex in music.

Other Authors:

Moisala, Pirkko.
Diamond, Beverley, 1948-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Searching for data about European ladies' orchestras, 1870-1950 / Margaret Myers -- 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 -- Image of woman in Turkish ballad poetry and music / Ursula Reinhard -- Telling lives. 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 --
Epilogue : Place of gender within complex dynamical musical systems / Marcia Herndon. 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 -- 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 : Place of gender within complex dynamical musical systems / Marcia Herndon.

ISBN:

9780252068652 (paper : acid-free paper)
0252068653 (paper : acid-free paper)
9780252025440 (cloth : acid-free paper)
025202544X (cloth : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41981850

LCCN:

99006791

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)