Women Singers in Global Contexts (eBook)

Music, Biography, Identity

Hellier Ruth Hellier (Herausgeber)

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2013
264 Seiten
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-09436-1 (ISBN)

Infos

 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.2.2013
• Co-Autor: Arisawa Shino Arisawa, Solomon Thomas Solomon, Doubleday Veronica Doubleday, Villepastour Amanda Villepastour, Muller Carol Muller, Koskoff Ellen Koskoff, Breyley Gay Breyley, Barney Katelyn Barney, Wrazen Louise Wrazen, Demetriou Nicolette Demetriou, Hellier Ruth Hellier
• Nachwort: Koskoff Ellen Koskoff
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-252-09436-0 / 0252094360
• ISBN-13: 978-0-252-09436-1 / 9780252094361