Ritual soundings : women performers and world religions /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Weiss, Sarah, author.
Imprint:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Description:	x, 181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	New perspectives on gender in music New perspectives on gender in music.
Subject:	Women musicians. Gender identity in music. Music -- Religious aspects. Marriage customs and rites. Women -- Social conditions. Gender identity in music. Marriage customs and rites. Music -- Religious aspects. Women musicians. Women -- Social conditions.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11792046

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ISBN:	9780252084089 025208408X 9780252042294 0252042298
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
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: Pre nuptial 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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