Ritual soundings : women performers and world religions /

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This text documents ways in which women's performance practices engage with and localize world religions while creating opportunities for women's agency. This study draws on the rich resources of three disciplines: ethnomusicology, gendered studies of religion, and religious music studies....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weiss, Sarah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Colección:New perspectives on gender in music.
Temas:
Women musicians.
Gender identity in music.
Music > Religious aspects.
Marriage customs and rites.
Women > Social conditions.
Musiciennes.
Identité de genre dans la musique.
Musique > Aspect religieux.
Mariage > Rites et cérémonies.
Femmes > Conditions sociales.
musicians.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
MUSIC > General.
Gender identity in music
Marriage customs and rites
Music > Religious aspects
Women musicians
Women > Social conditions
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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