[ePub] Writing Left-Handed: Collected Essays by David Hare at Arts-Photography

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One of the pioneers of gender studies in music; Ellen Koskoff edited the foundational text Women and Music in Cross Cultural Perspective; and her career evolved in tandem with the emergence and development of the field. In this intellectual memoir; Koskoff describes her journey through the maze of social history and scholarship related to her work examining the intersection of music and gender. Koskoff collects new; revised; and hard-to-find published material from mid-1970s through 2010 to trace the evolution of ethnomusicological thinking about women; gender; and music; offering a perspective of how questions emerged and changed in those years; as well as Koskoffs reassessment of the early years and development of the field. Her goal: a personal map of the different paths to understanding she took over the decades; and how each inspired; informed; and clarified her scholarship. For example; Koskoff shows how a preference for face-to-face interactions with living people served her best in her research; and how her now-classic work within Brooklyns Hasidic community inflamed her feminist consciousness while leading her into ethnomusicological studies. An uncommon merging of retrospective and rumination; A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender offers a witty and disarmingly frank tour through the formative decades of the field and will be of interest to ethnomusicologists; anthropologists; scholars of the history and development of feminist thought; and those engaged in fieldwork. Includes a foreword by Suzanne Cusick framing Koskoffs career and an extensive bibliography provided by the author.