Women singers in global contexts :  music, biography, identity / 
edited by Ruth Hellier ; afterword by Ellen Koskoff. 
 - Urbana :  University of Illinois Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Akkiko Fujii : telling the musical life stories of a hereditary jiuta singer of Japan /  Amelia Pedroso : the voice of a Cuban priestess leading from the inside /  Ayben : the girl's voice in Turkish rap /  Ixya Herrera : gracefully nurturing "Mexico" with song in the U.S.A. /  Kyriakou Pelagia : the housewife/grandmother-star of Cyprus /  Lexine Solomon : songs of connection and celebration by a Torres Strait islander /  Marysia's voice : defining home through song in Poland and Canada /  Sathima Bea Benjamin : musical echoes and the poetics of a South African-American musical self /  Sima's choices : negotiating repertories and identities in contemporary Iran /  Zainab Herawi : finding acclaim in the conservative Islamic culture of Afghanistan /  Shino Arisawa --  Amanda Villepastour --  Thomas Solomon --  Ruth Hellier --  Nicoletta Demetriou --  Katelyn Barney --  Louise Wrazen --  Carol Muller --  Gay Breyley --  Veronica Doubleday. 
<br/><br/> Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, Women Singers in Global Contexts 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 vocalizing embodies dynamics of representation, power, agency, activism, and risk-taking. Engaging with performance practice, politics, and constructions of gender through vocality and vocal aesthetics, this collection offers valuable insights into the experiences of specific women singers in a range of sociocultural contexts. Contributors trace themes and threads that include childhood, families, motherhood, migration, fame, training, transmission, technology, and the interface of private lives and public identities. -- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780252094361 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019717369 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>016171963  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women singers.<br/>Women singers--Social conditions.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>ML82  / .W664 2013