Women and music in cross-cultural perspective / edited by Ellen Koskoff.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents: An introduction to women, music, and culture / Ellen Koskoff -- From singing to lamenting: women's musical role in a Greek village / Susan Auerbach -- Balkan women as preservers of traditional music and culture / Patricia K. Shehan -- "Ya Salio' de la Mar": Judeo-Spanish wedding songs among Moroccan Jews in Canada / Judith R. Cohen -- A sociohistorical perspective on Tunisian women as professional musicians / L. JaFran Jones -- Hazara women in Afghanistan: innovators and preservers of a musical tradition / Hiromi Lorraine Sakata -- Professional women in Indian music: the death of the courtesan tradition / Jennifer Post -- Identity and individuality in an ensemble tradition: the female vocalist in Java / R. Anderson Sutton -- Inversion and conjuncture: male and female performance among the Temiar of penninsular Malaysia / Marina Roseman -- Female Tayu in the Gidayu narrative tradition of Japan / A. Kimi Coaldrake -- Musical expression and gender indentity in the myth and ritual of the Kalapalo of Central Brazil / Ellen B. Basso -- The joyful sound: women in the nineteenth-century United States hymnody tradition / Esther Rothenbusch -- Close harmony: early Jazz styles in the music of the New Orleans Boswell Sisters / Jane Hassinger -- An investigation into women-identified music in the United States / Karen E. Petersen -- The sound of a woman's voice: gender and music in a New York Hasidic community / Ellen Koskoff -- Power and gender in the musical experiences of women / Carol E. Robertson.

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