Engendering Song: Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian WeddingsUniversity of Chicago Press, 27 oct 1997 - 395 páginas For Prespa Albanians, both at home in Macedonia and in the diaspora, the most opulent, extravagant, and socially significant events of any year are wedding ceremonies. During days and weeks of festivities, wedding celebrants interact largely through singing, defining and renegotiating as they do so the very structure of their social world and establishing a profound cultural touchstone for Prespa communities around the world. Combining photographs, song texts, and vibrant recordings of the music with her own evocative descriptions, ethnomusicologist Jane C. Sugarman focuses her account of Prespa weddings on notions of gendered identity, demonstrating the capacity of singing to generate and transform relations of power within Prespa society. Engendering Song is an innovative theoretical work, with a scholarly importance extending far beyond southeast European studies. It offers unique and timely contributions to the analysis of music and gender, music in diaspora cultures, and the social constitution of self and subjectivity. |
Índice
Albanianpopulated Areas in the Central Balkan Peninsula | 6 |
Singing as a Social Activity | 40 |
Singing at the Grooms Grnčari 1983 | 42 |
Singing as a Gendered Activity | 79 |
lëmë | 97 |
The Order of Weddings | 120 |
The Prespa System | 155 |
GALLERIES OF PHOTOGRAPHS FOLLOW PAGES 78 AND | 204 |
Singing and the Discourse of Honor | 205 |
Singing as the Practice of Patriarchy | 227 |
Emergent Subjectivities | 286 |
Glossary | 347 |
Notes | 353 |
Bibliography | 373 |
Discography | 386 |
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