Engendering song

Description:

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 celebrations. 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.

subjects: Albanian Folk songs,  Albanians,  Folk music,  Folk songs, Albanian,  History and criticism,  Music,  Sex role,  Social life and customs,  Wedding music,  Albanians, foreign countries,  Folk music, history and criticism,  Folk songs, history and criticism

Places: North America,  Region Prespa, Lake