A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender (New Perspectives on Gender in Music) - Hardcover

Koskoff, Ellen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252038495 ISBN 13: 9780252038495

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2014

Synopsis

One of the pioneers of gender studies in music, Ellen Koskoff edited the foundational text Women and Music in Cross Cultural Perspective, and her career evolved in tandem with the emergence and development of the field.

 

In this intellectual memoir, Koskoff describes her journey through the maze of social history and scholarship related to her work examining the intersection of music and gender. Koskoff collects new, revised, and hard-to-find published material from mid-1970s through 2010 to trace the evolution of ethnomusicological thinking about women, gender, and music, offering a perspective of how questions emerged and changed in those years, as well as Koskoff's reassessment of the early years and development of the field. Her goal: a personal map of the different paths to understanding she took over the decades, and how each inspired, informed, and clarified her scholarship. For example, Koskoff shows how a preference for face-to-face interactions with living people served her best in her research, and how her now-classic work within Brooklyn's Hasidic community inflamed her feminist consciousness while leading her into ethnomusicological studies.

 

An uncommon merging of retrospective and rumination, A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender offers a witty and disarmingly frank tour through the formative decades of the field and will be of interest to ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, scholars of the history and development of feminist thought, and those engaged in fieldwork.

 

Includes a foreword by Suzanne Cusick framing Koskoff's career and an extensive bibliography provided by the author.

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Review:

"One of the clearest overviews of the history of feminist and gender studies--in general and in the specific domains of musicology, ethnomusicology, and anthropology--that I have read. The bibliography alone is worth the price of admission."
--Margaret Sarkissian, author of D'Albquerque's Children: Performing Tradition in Malaysia's Portuguese Settlement

"A clear summary of key ideas and pioneering books and presents illuminating descriptions and definitions of central concepts and terms.  This book is valuable for its depth and fluent writing.  Recommended."--Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0252038495
• ISBN 13: 9780252038495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256