Women's voices across musical worlds /
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| Imprint: | Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2004. |
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| Description: | xvi, 353 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5035764 |
Table of Contents:
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: On Women and Music
- Part 1. Public Voices, Private Voices
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Power of Class: Fanny Hensel and the Mendelssohn Family
- Chapter 2. The Illusion of India's "Public" Dancers
- Chapter 3. "Fighting in Frills": Women and the Prix de Rome in French Cultural Politics
- Part 2. Cloistered Voices
- Introduction
- Chapter 4. Music for the Love Feast: Hildegard of Bingen and the Song of Songs
- Chapter 5. Putting Bolognese Nun Musicians in their Place
- Part 3. Empowered Voices
- Introduction
- Chapter 6. Voices of the People: Umm Kulthum
- Chapter 7. "Thanks for My Weapons in Battle--My Voice and the Desire to Use It": Women and Protest Music in the Americas
- Chapter 8. Tori Amos's Inner Voices
- Part 4. Lamenting Voices
- Introduction
- Chapter 9. Having Her Say: The Blues as the Black Woman's Lament
- Chapter 10. Abandoned Heroines: Women's Voices in Handel's Cantatas
- Part 5. Gendered Voices and Performance
- Introduction
- Chapter 11. The Nightingale and the Partridge: Singing and Gender among Prespa Albanians
- Chapter 12. Women Playing Men in Italian Opera, 1810-1835
- Chapter 13. Shifting Selves: Embodied Metaphors in Nihon Buyo
- Selected Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index