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Issues of Representation: Women, Representation, and Music in Selected Folk Traditions of the British Isles and North America

WGS.645 · Women's and Gender Studies · Graduate · Fall 2005

Prof. Judith Tick, Prof. Ruth Perry

MIT · Tier 1

This subject investigates the special relation of women to several musical folk traditions in the British Isles and North America. Throughout, we will be examining the implications of gender in the creation, transmission, and performance of music. Because virtually all societies operate to some extent on a gendered division of labor (and of expressive roles) the music of these societies is marked by the gendering of musical repertoires, traditions of instrumentation, performance settings, and s…

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Prof. Judith Tick, Prof. Ruth Perry. WGS.645 Issues of Representation: Women, Representation, and Music in Selected Folk Traditions of the British Isles and North America. Fall 2005. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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