Engendering Song

Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian Weddings

Jane C. Sugarman

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English

University of Chicago Press
27 October 1997

Folk & traditional music; Social & cultural history; Ethnic studies; Sociology: customs & traditions; Anthropology; Weddings, wedding planners

Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE

For Prespa Albanians, both at home in Macedonia and in the diaspora, the most opulent, extravagant, and socially significant events of any year are wedding ceremonies. During days and weeks of festivities, wedding celebrants interact largely through singing, defining and renegotiating as they do so the very structure of their social world and establishing a profound cultural touchstone for Prespa communities around the world.

Combining photographs, song texts, and vibrant recordings of the music with her own evocative descriptions, ethnomusicologist Jane C. Sugarman focuses her account of Prespa weddings on notions of gendered identity, demonstrating the capacity of singing to generate and transform relations of power within Prespa society. Engendering Song is an innovative theoretical work, with a scholarly importance extending far beyond southeast European studies. It offers unique and timely contributions to the analysis of music and gender, music in diaspora cultures, and the social constitution of self and subjectivity.

By: Jane C. Sugarman
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd ed.
Volume: 1997
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 15mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 652g
ISBN: 9780226779737
ISBN 10: 0226779734
Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology CSE
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 27 October 1997
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jane C. Sugarman is assistant professor of music at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.