Society for Music Theory

Committee on the Status of Women

Bibliography of Sources Related to Women's Studies,
Gender Studies, Feminism, and Music



Ethnomusicology


Briggs, Charles L. "Personal Sentiments and Polyphonic Voices in Warao Women's Ritual Wailing: Music and Poetics in a Critical and Collective Discourse." American Anthropologist 95 (1993), 929-57.

Edwards, J. Michele. "All Women's Musical Communities: Fostering Creativity and Leadership." In Bridges of Power: Women's Multicultural Alliances, ed. Lisa Albrecht and Rose Brewer, 95-107. Santa Cruz, CA: New Society Publishers, 1990. [JoAnn Falletta] annotation

Giles, Jennifer and John Shepherd. "Theorizing Music's Affective Power." Ethnomusicology in Canada, ed. Robert Witmer, 19. Toronto: Institute for Canadian Music, 1990.

Koskoff, Ellen. "Is Female to Male as Postmodern is to Modern? Implications for a New Ethnomusicology." In Proceedings of the Goteborg Gender and Music Conference, 1996.[cf. Ortner]

Koskoff, Ellen. "Miriam Sings Her Song: The Self and the Other in Anthropological Discourse." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 149-163. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Koskoff, Ellen, ed. Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989. [cf. book reviews]

Lange, Barbara Rose. "Gender Politics and Musical Performers in the Isten Gyulekezet: A Fieldwork Account." Journal of American Folklore 109 (Winter '96), 60-76.

Meyers, Carol. "The Drum-Dance-Song Ensemble: Women's Performance in Biblical Israel." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Mohammed, Patricia. "Reflections on the Women's Movement in Trinidad: Calypsos, Changes and Sexual Violence." Feminist Review 38 (Summer 1991), 33-47.

Ortner, Sherry B. "Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?" In Women, Culture, and Society, ed. Michelle Rosaldo and Louis Lamphere. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974. [cf. Koskoff]

Payne, Helen. "The Presence of the Possessed: A Parameter in the Performance Practice of the Music of Australian Aboriginal Women." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall, 1-20. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Robertson, Carol E. "The Ethnomusicologist as Midwife." In Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship, ed. Ruth Solie, 107-124. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Robertson, Carol. "Singing Social Boundaries Into Place: The Dynamics of Gender and Performance in Two Cultures, Part I." Sonus 10/1 (1989), 59-71.

Robertson, Carol. "Singing Social Boundaries Into Place: The Dynamics of Gender and Performance in Two Cultures, Part II." Sonus 10/2 (1990), 1-13.

Sultan, Nancy. "Private Speech, Public Pain: The Power of Women's Laments in Ancient Greek Poetry and Tragedy." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Magrini, Tullia. "Ballad and gender: Reconsidering narrative singing in Northern Italy." Ethnomusicology online vol. 1, 1995.

Teeter, Emily. "Female Musicians in Pharaonic Egypt." In Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions, ed. Kimberly Marshall. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.

Tolbert, Elizabeth. "The Voice of Lament: Female Vocality and Performative Efficacy in the Finnish-Karelian Itkuvirsi." In Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture, ed. Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, 179-196. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Valdez, Avelardo. "Gender in the Culture of Mexican American Conjunto Music." Gender & Society 10 (April 1996), 148-67.

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