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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hellier, Ruth
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]
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.