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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Ritual soundings Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019] (DLC) 2018033007 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sarah Weiss |
ISBN: | 9780252051135 0252051130 |
OCLC Number: | 1096281446 |
Description: | 1 online resource. |
Contents: | Introduction -- 1. Women performers and world religions : on ritual, local practice, universals, and comparison -- 2. Wedding lamentation : singing sorrow, embodying the future -- 3. Demeter's lamentation and Baubo's mockery : responses to the marriage (abduction) of Persephone -- 4. Revelry and resistance : prenuptial performances of mockery and ridicule -- 5. Girls's poetry and social critique at Muslim Berber weddings -- 6. Transgression and tarantella among Catholic women in Calabria -- Afterword. |
Series Title: | New perspectives on gender in music. |
Responsibility: | Sarah Weiss. |
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"A fine book that synthesizes and analyzes a fascinating variety of case studies. She argues that comparative studies are ethically important because they enable us to see connections--how people in different contexts respond to situations in some interestingly similar ways--rather than focus on what divides us."--Lisa I. Knight, author of Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in India and Bangladesh "As I read along, I found myself smiling and nodding at the text's cleverness and its validating evidence for women's agency in the performance of scandalous 'soundings' of protest and dissent. This is a fascinating, well-written, and extraordinarily well-research book."--Ellen Koskoff, author of A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender "This study is a treasure trove of marriage-rituals that women perform within the context of the world religion they are affiliated to. It is a pleasure to savour the presentation of their variety." --Religion and Gender Read more...


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- Women musicians.
- Gender identity in music.
- Music -- Religious aspects.
- Marriage customs and rites.
- Women -- Social conditions.
- MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
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