Women Singers in Global Contexts : Music, Biography, Identity /
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, ex...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Akkiko Fujii : telling the musical life stories of a hereditary jiuta singer of Japan / Shino Arisawa
- Amelia Pedroso : the voice of a Cuban priestess leading from the inside / Amanda Villepastour
- Ayben : the girl's voice in Turkish rap / Thomas Solomon
- Ixya Herrera : gracefully nurturing "Mexico" with song in the U.S.A. / Ruth Hellier
- Kyriakou Pelagia : the housewife/grandmother-star of Cyprus / Nicoletta Demetriou
- Lexine Solomon : songs of connection and celebration by a Torres Strait islander / Katelyn Barney
- Marysia's voice : defining home through song in Poland and Canada / Louise Wrazen
- Sathima Bea Benjamin : musical echoes and the poetics of a South African-American musical self / Carol Muller
- Sima's choices : negotiating repertories and identities in contemporary Iran / Gay Breyley
- Zainab Herawi : finding acclaim in the conservative Islamic culture of Afghanistan / Veronica Doubleday.