TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weiss,Sarah
TI  - Ritual soundings: women performers and world religions 
T2  - New perspectives on gender in music
SN  - 9780252051135
AV  - ML82 
U1  - 781.70082 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Women musicians
KW  - Gender identity in music
KW  - Music
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Marriage customs and rites
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Musiciennes
KW  - Identité de genre dans la musique
KW  - Musique
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Mariage
KW  - Rites et cérémonies
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - musicians
KW  - aat
KW  - MUSIC
KW  - Instruction & Study
KW  - Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index; 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 : prenuptial 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
N2  - 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
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