Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity
Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity
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Abstract
Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, this book 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 singing embodies dynamics of representation, power, agency, activism, and risk-taking. Engaging with performance practice, politics, and constructions of gender through vocality and vocal aesthetics, the book offers insights into the experiences of specific women singers in a range of sociocultural contexts. The chapters trace themes and threads that include childhood, families, motherhood, migration, fame, training, transmission, technology, and the interface of private lives and public identities. The book concentrates solely on individual women singers. The women profiled include a locally known community singer, an internationally renowned priestess, a professional wedding singer, and a national star. Chapters range across musical genres encompassing jazz, rap, traditional, folk, devotional, and classical, and the book's geographical range encompasses Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, Cuba, Cyprus, Germany, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Poland, South Africa, Torres Strait Islands, Turkey, and the United States.
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Vocal Herstories: Resonances of Singing, Individuals, and Authors
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Akiko Fujii: Telling the Musical Life Stories of a Hereditary Jiuta Singer of Japan
Shino Arisawa
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Amelia Pedroso: The Voice of a Cuban Priestess Leading from the Inside
Amanda Villepastour
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Ayben: “The Girl’s Voice in Turkish Rap”
Thomas Solomon
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Ixya Herrera: Gracefully Nurturing “Mexico” with Song in the U.S.A.
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Kyriakou Pelagia: The Housewife/Grandmother-Star of Cyprus
Nicoletta Demetriou
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Lexine Solomon: Songs of Connection and Celebration by a Torres Strait Islander
Katelyn Barney
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Marysia’s Voice: Defining Home through Song in Poland and Canada
Louise Wrazen
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Sathima Bea Benjamin: Musical Echoes and the Poetics of a South African–American Musical Self
Carol Muller
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Sima’s Choices: Negotiating Repertoires and Identities in Contemporary Iran
Gay Breyley
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Zainab Herawi: Finding Acclaim in the Conservative Islamic Culture of Afghanistan
Veronica Doubleday
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Afterword
Ellen Koskoff
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End Matter
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