Music as Representation of Gender
in Mediterranean Cultures

Venice, June 11-13 1998

Report on the meeting

June 11

Giulio Cattin (Fondazione Levi)

Official Opening

 

Tullia Magrini (University of Bologna)

Women's "work of pain" in Christian Mediterranean Europe

 

Iain Fenlon (King's College, Cambridge)

Music ceremony and female piety in Renaissance Venice

 

Karin van Nieuwkerk (University of Nijmegen)

"An hour for God and an hour for the heart": Islam, gender and female entertainment in Egypt

 

Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago)

Shechinah, or the feminine sacre in musics of the Jewish Mediterranean

 

Edwin Seroussi (Università Bar-Ilan, Israele)

De-gendering Jewish music: the survival of the Judeo-Spanish folk song revisited

June 12

Michela Garda (University of Trento)

Re-telling and revising our musical past: feminine voices of the male music.

 

Franco Alberto Gallo (University of Bologna)

Gender and music in the Middle Age: some perspectives

 

Martha Feldman (University of Chicago)

The absent mother in Opera Seria

 

Martin Stokes (University of Chicago)

Hypergender and mediterraneanism

 

Joaquina Labajo (Istituto Fortuny, Madrid)

Body and voice: the construction of gender in flamenco

 

Svanibor Pettan (University of Zagabria)

"Male" and "female" in culture and music of the Gypsies in Kosovo

June 13

 

Marie Virolle (CNRS, Parigi)

Women in Raï: roles and representations

 

Tony Langlois (University of Belfast)

Invisible but audible: women's religious music in Morocco

 

Antonio Baldassarre

Women's sacred songs in Fès (Morocco): documentation and reflections

 

Bruno Nettl (University of Urbana), chairman

Discussion and perspectives

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