Introducing WMLON: The Women’s Musical Leadership Online Network

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Introduction. Women’s Modes, Legacies and Futures in Music 9
4. Uneven Terrains of Struggle: Towards the Transformative Notion of Female Music Leadership 15
5. Between Home and International Scenes. Sarah Ndagire’s Way to World Music 35
6. Plucking a Liberal Sound: Japanese Women’s Resignification of Finnish Kantele in a Hobbyist Club 53
7. Female Balkan Romani Singers: Charting Innovative Performance Paths 67
8. Assumptions of Normality: How Three Women with a Disability Changed the Face of Music 83
9. Female Leadership in Iranian-Arab Shiʻa Rituals from Khorramshahr, South-western Iran 99
10. God Has a Woman’s Voice. Liturgical Music and Agency of Eastern European Migrant Women in Rome 111
11. Winds of Change? Gender Segregation in Music Education and Production in Italy 125
12. Introducing WMLON: The Women’s Musical Leadership Online Network 141
13. Women in Music: Possibilities and Responsibilities of Cultural Management and Policy 153
14. Women’s Role in Sustaining the Practice of Tamburitza Instruments in Vojvodina 167
15. Performing Trauma in Privileged Spaces: Empowering Turkish Women’s Voices of the Past 181
16. Women’s Actions to Revitalize the Practice of Kaval Playing in Serbia 199
17. Female Leadership in Serbian Metal Music. Frontwomen at the Crossroads of Visibility, Genre and Voice 213
18. Female Agency, Genres and Aesthetics of Sorrow in Persian Classical Music 225
19. “What Moves the World, Moves My Ass as Well”: Mimi Mercedez as an Anti-heroine of Postsocialist Serbia 239
20. Notes on Contributors 253