This book explores musical and personal experiences of three Sudanese women performers and analyzes textual meanings of a particular type of women's songs in Sudan called "aghani al-banaat." Because there are many discourses about "womanhood," culture, and gender in Sudan, aghani al-banaat could stand as another narrative for negotiating gender/power relations and identity formation by the Sudanese women. Despite being labeled as "loose" and "bad" singing, aghani al-baanat provided a discursive space through which the Sudanese women voiced their alternative narratives of social and gender...