Women Singers in Global Contexts - Music, Biography, Identity (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2013
First published:	February 2013
Editors:	Ruth Hellier
Afterword by:	Ellen Koskoff
Contributors:	Shino Arisawa • Katelyn Barney • Gay Breyley • Nicolette Demetriou • Veronica Doubleday • Ruth Hellier • Ellen Koskoff • Carol Muller
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-03724-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Music > General
LSN:	0-252-03724-3
Barcode:	9780252037245

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