Women singers in global contexts
music, biography, identity
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Author
Publication
2013 - University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
63,250 words, Guess
Page Count
253 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25340341M
- ISBN-139780252037245
- OCLC Control Number788276270
- OCLC Control Numberisbn_9780252037245
- Library of Congress Control Number2012022030
Classifications
- DDC780.92/52
- LCCML82 .W687 2013
Description
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. -- Book jacket.
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