Women's Leadership in Music
Author | : Linda Cimardi |
Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2023-03-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9783839465462 |
ISBN-13 | : 383946546X |
Rating | : 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Various modes of women's contemporary cultural, social and political leadership can be found in music. Informed by different histories and culturally bound social mores but also by a comparative perspective, the contributors of this volume ask what can be considered leadership in culture from women's point of view. They deconstruct the notion of leadership as corporative and career-related modes of success by showing how women's agency, power and negotiation in and through music can and should be considered as empowering, transformative and role-modeling. By interweaving several disciplinary perspectives - from ethnomusicology, musicology and cultural management to sociology and anthropology - this volume aims to substantially contribute to the study of women's leadership.