| Description |
1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations, music |
| Series |
American studies, 0178-1987 ; volume 181 |
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American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 181.
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| Contents |
Dichotonies : gender and music : an introduction / Beate Neumeier -- Music and gender : a historical and theoretical dialogue : on a theoretical note. Silencing and silence : femininity and the ambivalence of self-articulation. Silencing voices / Elisabeth Bronfen ; Silent voices / Melanie Unseld ; Feminist and queer approaches to music / Chris Weedon ; Why gender still (as always) matters in music studies / Susan McClary ; Feminism, music theory, time, and embodiment / Fred Maus -- Music and the gendering of sound : on an auditory/vocal/sounding note. From "Heroische Bogenstriche" to "Waldeinsamkeit" : gender and genre in Judith Weir's Heroic strokes of the bow and Blond Eckbert / David Beard ; Thomas Adès and the "narrative agendas" of "absolute music" / Kenneth Gloag ; The "amen" breakbeat as fratriarchal totem / Andrew Whelan ; The twittering machine : Kate Bush's Becoming-bird / Philipp Hofmann -- Music and the gendering of text : on a textual note. Like perfect music unto noble words : gender metaphors and Victorian music poetry / Regular Hohl Trillini ; Gender and sociability within the Schöne Müllerin Liederspiel : the case of Luise Hensel and the gardener songs ; Sexy (no no no) : the cool and the hot in female popular song / Barbara Bradby ; Aiming at a mirror : towards a critique of gangsta masculinity / Leonard Kreuzer -- Music and the gendering of performance : on a performance note. The sex of song : brigitte Fassbänder's Winterreise / Lawrence Kramer ; Haunting the house of gender : Marilyn Manson and Gothic rock / Carmen Birkle ; Arabesk : nomadic tales, oriental beasts, and hybrid looks / Ralph Poole ; Dancing to the jailhouse rock : the pop prison / Dirk Schulz -- Intermedial crossovers of music and gender : music in fiction, drama, film, ritual : on an intermedial note. Effeminate idolatry : the word and the violin of flesh / Sylvia Mieszkowski ; The cultural logic of bad taste : country music, "white trash", and gender politics / Mita Banerjee ; Sound tracks to the frontier : gender, difference and music in the American road movie / Birgitt Däwes ; Contemporary playwrights staging music and gender / Beate Neumeier |
| Summary |
HauptbeschreibungThis volume brings together twenty-one original essays by international scholars from the fields of gender studies, cultural theory, and music studies. Covering a wide range of music genres and theoretical perspectives, the shared concern of all contributions is the underlying concept of gender and sexuality pervading music production and performance as well as its consumption. At the end of the first decade of the new millennium, at a time when once abolished gender boundaries seem to be re-established under the guise of postfeminism, there is a discernible and renewed intere |
| Notes |
Revised versions of papers originally presented at the conference Klang Körper, held in Cologne, Germany in June 2008 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gender identity in music -- Congresses
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Sex in music -- Congresses
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Music -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Music -- Instruction and study -- Congresses
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Gender identity in music
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Music -- Instruction and study
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Music -- Social aspects
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Sex in music
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Neumeier, Beate
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| ISBN |
3825373266 |
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9783825373269 |
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