基本説明
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.
Full 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.
Contents
Title PageCopyright PageContentsThe Companion WebsiteIntroduction. Vocal Herstories: Resonances of Singing, Individuals, and Authors Ruth Hellier1. Akiko Fujii: Telling the Musical Life Stories of a Hereditary Jiuta Singer of Japan Shino Arisawa2. Amelia Pedroso: The Voice of a Cuban Priestess Leading from the Inside Amanda Villepastour3. Ayben:"The Girl's Voice in Turkish Rap" Thomas Solomon4. Ixya Herrera: Gracefully Nurturing "Mexico" with Song in the U.S.A. Ruth Hellier5. Kyriakou Pelagia: The Housewife/Grandmother-Star of Cyprus Nicoletta Demetriou6. Lexine Solomon: Songs of Connection and Celebration by a Torres Strait Islander Katelyn Barney7. Marysia's Voice: Defining Home through Song in Poland and Canada Louise Wrazen8. Sathima Bea Benjamin: Musical Echoes and the Poetics of a South African-American Musical Self Car9. Sima's Choices: Negotiating Repertoires and Identities in Contemporary Iran Gay Breyley10. Zainab Herawi: Finding Acclaim in the Conservative Islamic Culture of Afghanistan Veronica DoublAfterword Ellen KoskoffAppendixContributorsIndex
