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.
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