edited by Pirkko Moisala and Beverley Diamond contributions by Jane Bowers, Margaret Myers, Naila Ceribasic, Cynthia Tse Kimberlin, Ingrid Ruutel, Boden Sandstrom, Karen Pegley, Andra McCartney, Linda Dusman, Marcia Herndon, Ellen Koskoff, Pirkko Moisala, Beverley Diamond, Michelle Kisliuk, Helmi Jarviluoma and Ursula Reinhard foreword by Ellen Koskoff
University of Illinois Press, 2000 Cloth: 978-0-252-02544-0 | Paper: 978-0-252-06865-2 Library of Congress Classification ML82.M74 2000 Dewey Decimal Classification 780.82
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Through the experiences of performers, composers, and ethnomusicologists working in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North America, Music and Gender explores how the uses and descriptions of music shift in response to rapid political, economic, or technological change.
A cross-section of case studies from the Central African Republic, Finland, and Turkey addresses issues of how performance reflects gender and furthers other social goals, such as negotiating identity and transforming consciousness. Articles on Croatian and Serbian popular music and on the changing circumstances of women musicians in war-torn Ethiopia and post-Soviet Estonia consider the fate of fragile constructions of gender and nationhood in times of war or crisis. Other essays consider the relationship of gender to digital sound technology--in terms of access to the field, interactions among musicians, and aesthetic decisions--and gender issues in writing the musical lives of women composers and performers.
Articulating a theoretical agenda that encompasses perspectives from vastly different musical cultures, this important collection shows how music can help bridge the radical transformations of individuals, groups, and nations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Foreword
Ellen Koskoff / ix
Introduction: Music and Gender-Negotiating Shifting Worlds
Beverley Diamond and Pirkko Moisala / 1
PART I: MUSIC PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMATIVITY
1. Performance and Modernity among BaAka Pygmies: A Closer Look at
the Mystique of Egalitarian Foragers in the Rain Forest
Michelle Kisliuk / 25
2. Local Constructions of Gender in a Finnish Pelirnanni
Musicians Group
Helmi Jarviluoma / 51
3. The Image of Woman in Turkish Ballad Poetry and Music
Ursula Reinhard / 80
PART 2: TELLING LIVES
4. The Interpretation of Gender Issues in Musical Life Stories of
Prince Edward Islanders
Beverley Diamond / 99
5. Writing the Biography of a Black Woman Blues Singer
Jane Bowers / 140
6. Gender Negotiation of the Composer Kaija Saariaho in Finland:
The Woman Composer as Nomadic Subject
Pirkko Moisala / 166
7. Searching for Data about European Ladies' Orchestras, 1870-1950
Margaret Myers / 189
PART 3: GENDERED MUSICAL SITES IN THE REDEFINITION OF NATIONS
8. Defining Women and Men in the Context of War: Images in Croatian
Popular Music in the 1990s
Naila Ceribasic / 219
9. Women, Music, and "Chains of the Mind": Eritrea and the Tigray
Region of Ethiopia, 1972-93
Cynthia Tse Kimberlin / 239
10. Past arid Present Gender Roles in the Traditional Community on
Kihnu Island in Estonia
Ingrid Ruutel / 266
PART 4: TECHNOLOGIES IN GENDERED MOTION
11. Women Mix Engineers and the Power of Sound
Boden Sandstrom / 289
12. Gender, Voice, and Place: Issues of Negotiation in a "Technology in
Music Program"
Karen Pegley / 306
13. Cyborg Experiences: Contradictions and Tensions of Technology, Nature, and the Body
in Hildegard Westerkamp's "Breathing Room"
Andra McCartney / 317
14. No Bodies There: Absence and Presence in Acousmatic Performance
Linda Dusman / 336
Epilogue: The Place of Gender within Complex, Dynamic Musical Systems
Marcia Herndon / 347
Contributors / 361
Index / 365