A Feminist Ethnomusicology - Writings on Music and Gender (Hardcover)

One of the pioneers of gender studies in music, Ellen Koskoff edited the foundational text "Women and Music in Cross Cultural Perspective," and her career evolved in tandem with the emergence and development of the field.
In this intellectual memoir, Koskoff describes her journey through the maze of social history and scholarship related to her work examining the intersection of music and gender. Koskoff collects new, revised, and hard-to-find published material from mid-1970s through 2010 to trace the evolution of ethnomusicological thinking about women, gender, and music, offering a perspective of how questions emerged and changed in those years, as well as Koskoff's reassessment of the early years and development of the field. Her goal: a personal map of the different paths to understanding she took over the decades, and how each inspired, informed, and clarified her scholarship. For example, Koskoff shows how a preference for face-to-face interactions with living people served her best in her research, and how her now-classic work within Brooklyn's Hasidic community inflamed her feminist consciousness while leading her into ethnomusicological studies.
An uncommon merging of retrospective and rumination, "A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender "offers a witty and disarmingly frank tour through the formative decades of the field and will be of interest to ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, scholars of the history and development of feminist thought, and those engaged in fieldwork.
Includes a foreword by Suzanne Cusick framing Koskoff's career and an extensive bibliography provided by the author.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New Perspectives on Gender in Music
Release date:	April 2014
First published:	April 2014
Authors:	Ellen Koskoff
Foreword by:	Suzanne Cusick
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-03849-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Folk music Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > Music > Folk music
LSN:	0-252-03849-5
Barcode:	9780252038495

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