<h2>MUSIC AND GENDER: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN</h2>
<p class="author">EDITED BY <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/author/M/T/au5812364.html">TULLIA MAGRINI</a></p>
<div id="sliderContent"><div id="slideDetails"><div class="info">392 pages | 18 halftones, 2 line drawings, 1 musical example | 6 x 9 | © 2003<br><br></div>
<div class="info"><a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/CSE.html">Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology</a></div>
<div class="desc"><div><br>Although scholars have long been aware of the
crucial roles that gender plays in music, and vice versa, the
contributors to this volume are among the first to systematically
examine the interactions between the two. This book is also the first to
explore the diverse, yet often strikingly similar, musics of the areas
bordering the Mediterranean from comparative anthropological
perspectives.<br><br>From Spanish flamenco to Algerian raï, Greek
rebetika to Turkish pop music, Sephardi and Berber songs to Egyptian
belly dancers, the contributors cover an exceedingly wide range of
geographic and musical territories. Individual essays examine musical
behavior as representation, assertion, and sometimes transgression of
gender identities; compare men's and women's roles in specific musical
practices and their historical evolution; and explore how music and
gender relate to such issues as ethnicity, nationality, and religion.
Anyone studying the musics or cultures of the Mediterranean, or more
generally the relations between gender and the arts, will welcome this
book.<br><br>Contributors:<br>Caroline Bithell, Joaquina Labajo, Jane C.
Sugarman, Carol Silverman, Goffredo Plastino, Gail Holst-Warhaft, Edwin
Seroussi, Marie Virolle, Terry Brint Joseph, Deborah Kapchan, Karin van
Nieuwkerk, Svanibor Pettan, Martin Stokes, Philip V. Bohlman</div>
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</div><br><a href="http://musicologiafeminista.ning.com/profiles/blogs/music-and-gender-perspectives">http://musicologiafeminista.ning.com/profiles/blogs/music-and-gender-perspectives</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Carlos Palombini<br>
<a href="mailto:cpalombini@gmail.com" target="_blank">cpalombini@gmail.com</a><br><br>