Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization

ISBN-13: 9781032011783 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 146 str.

Marie Buscatto

Opis

Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization examines the invisible discrimination against female musicians in the French jazz world and the ways women thrive as professionals despite such conditions.

Spis treści

1. A saturated and hierarchized professional world / PART ONE: Jazz singer: Such a "feminine" job / 2. Vocal jazz, commercial jazz, gendered jazz / 3. So "feminine" in such a "masculine" world / 4. The voice is not an instrument / 5. An irresistible "feminine" seduction / 6. Amateur vocal jams: An illusory gendered transgression? / PART TWO: Some "great chicks" / 7. Very "well-endowed" young women / 8. Difficult access to stable working networks / 9. Women in a man’s world: Reconciling the irreconcilable? / 10. Managing one’s "femininity" in public: Disparagement, neutrality or seduction?

O autorze

Marie Buscatto is Professor in Sociology at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris, France.