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Iva Nenic is an ethnomusicologist and cultural theorist who works as an assistant professor at University of Arts, Belgrade. Her research is concerned with the way music and wider cultural practices give rise to ideology and help enact social identities, with a focus on gender and the politics of intersectionality, as well as on the relationship between sustainability and anthropocenic aspects of contemporary culture. She is the leader of the scientific research project »Female Leadership in Music« (FLIM), supported by the Science Fund of Serbia.
Linda Cimardi is an ethnomusicologist working as principal investigator in the DFG-funded project »Black Musics in the Region of (Former) Yugoslavia« at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. She holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Bologna (2013). Her main areas of interest are African musics, gender in music and dance, politics and aesthetics of world music.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 7
Introduction. Women's Modes, Legacies and Futures in Music 9
Uneven Terrains of Struggle: Towards the Transformative Notion of Female Music Leadership 15
Between Home and International Scenes. Sarah Ndagire's Way to World Music 35
Plucking a Liberal Sound: Japanese Women's Resignification of Finnish Kantele in a Hobbyist Club 53
Female Balkan Romani Singers: Charting Innovative Performance Paths 67
Assumptions of Normality: How Three Women with a Disability Changed the Face of Music 83
Female Leadership in Iranian-Arab Shia Rituals from Khorramshahr, South-western Iran 99
God Has a Woman's Voice. Liturgical Music and Agency of Eastern European Migrant Women in Rome 111
Winds of Change? Gender Segregation in Music Education and Production in Italy 125
Introducing WMLON: The Women's Musical Leadership Online Network 141
Women in Music: Possibilities and Responsibilities of Cultural Management and Policy 153
Women's Role in Sustaining the Practice of Tamburitza Instruments in Vojvodina 167
Performing Trauma in Privileged Spaces: Empowering Turkish Women's Voices of the Past 181
Women's Actions to Revitalize the Practice of Kaval Playing in Serbia 199
Female Leadership in Serbian Metal Music. Frontwomen at the Crossroads of Visibility, Genre and Voice 213
Female Agency, Genres and Aesthetics of Sorrow in Persian Classical Music 225
"What Moves the World, Moves My Ass as Well": Mimi Mercedez as an Anti-heroine of Postsocialist Serbia 239
Notes on Contributors 253