Performing Gender Place and Emotion in Music

While ethnomusicologists and anthropologists have long recognized the theoretical connections between gender place and emotion in musical performance these concepts are seldom analyzed together. <I>Performing Gender Place and Emotion in Music</I> is the first book-length study to examine the interweaving of these three concepts from a cross-cultural perspective. Contributors show how a theoretical focus one dimension implicates the others creating a nexus of performative engagement. This process is examined across different regions around the globe through two key questions: How are aesthetic emotional and imagined relations between performers and places embodied musically? And in what ways is this performance of emotion gendered across quotidian ritual and staged events?<BR>Through ethnographic case studies the volume explores issues of emplacement embodiment and emotion in three parts: landscape and emotion; memory and attachment; and nationalism and indigeneity. Part I focuses on emplaced sentiments in Australasia through Vietnamese spirit possession Balinese dance and land rights in Aboriginal performance. Part II addresses memories of Aboriginal choral singing belonging in Bavarian music-making and gender-performativity in Polish song. Part III evaluates emotion and fandom around a Korean singer in Japan and Sámi interconnectivities in traditional and modern musical practices. Beverley Diamond provides a thought-provoking commentary in the afterword.<BR><BR>Contributors: Beverley Diamond Fiona Magowan Jonathan McIntosh Barley Norton Tina K. Ramnarine Muriel Swijghuisen Reigersberg Sara R. Walmsley-Pledl Louise Wrazen Christine Yano.<BR><BR>Fiona Magowan is Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast.<BR>Louise Wrazen is Associate Professor of Music at York University.