The Study of Women and Music in Morocco
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8967807 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alessandra Ciucci (0000-0001-5954-4641, Northeastern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 787-789 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743812000906 |
| OpenAlex | W2144336373 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 11 |
The 1987 publication of Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspectives , the first anthology on the topic of women and music in the field of ethnomusicology, marked a critical turn in the scholarship. The ethnographic-focused essays on women's genres and roles in music in diverse societies around the world, including the Middle East, presented new analytical frameworks and research on authority, gender and access, and notions of power and performance. Today, research on the musical practices of women continues to expand in ethnomusicology and in fields such as anthropology. Many scholars now acknowledge the centrality of gender for locating “how society is in music and music is in society.” This is a particularly important approach for the Middle East and North Africa, where the undervaluing or silencing of women's musical practices and abilities had continued to dominate ethnomusicology. An important study to break from the paradigm was Virginia Danielson's 1997 monograph on Umm Kulthum. Danielson analyzes the development and the construction of a musical and a social “voice,” looking at what it means for this particular artist to both be the voice of and have a voice in colonial and postcolonial Egypt. In the discussion that follows I outline the academic trajectory of writings on women and music in Morocco, which I have divided into three distinct historical moments, each exemplifying different approaches to the subject matter: work by 20th-century French colonial scholars, by contemporary European and American scholars, and by contemporary Moroccan scholars
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Ethnomusicology · Literature · Music history · Musical · Musicology · Orientalism · Political science · Popular music · Power (physics · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Socioeconomic Development in MENA
"The Voice of Egypt"
Women and music in cross-cultural perspective
The Voice of Egypt
Gender on the Market
Tableau de la musique marocaine
Poetry as a Strategy of Power
Generational Change in Berber Women's Song of the Anti-Atlas Mountains, Morocco
What Do Ethnomusicologists Do? An Old Question for a New Century
The Creation of the Moroccan Colonial Archive, 1880-1930
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |