Ritual soundings : women performers and world religions /

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Author / Creator:	Weiss, Sarah, author.
Imprint:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019] ©2019
Description:	1 online resource.
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. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12353349

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ISBN:	9780252051135 0252051130 9780252042294 9780252084089 025208408X 0252042298
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	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. It is a meta-ethnography formed by comparisons among different ethnographic case studies. The work analyses women's performances at religious events in cultural settings spread across the world to demonstrate the pivotal roles women can play in localizing the practice of world religions, exploring moments in which performance allows women the agency to move, however momentarily, beyond culturally determined boundaries while revealing patterns that suggest unsuspected similarities in widely divergent religious contexts.
Other form:	Print version: Ritual soundings Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019] 9780252042294

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