"An intellectually stimulating overview of how such musicians manage dynamically to present themselves with their own cultures. Highly recommended."—Choice
"Each chapter engages with multiple contexts, demonstrating the ways in which women from various backgrounds mediate performance and gendered expectations inside and outside their home communities... Impactful intersections of different identity categories—gender, class, profession, or avocation ("singer"), location, age, sexuality, education, race, and marital and familial status—emerge as central to the work"—Ethnomusicology
"The first ethnographic collection to focus on individual female singers. . . . The range of the essays is impressive, featuring women of different generations from five continents. . . . this volume will be valuable to scholars interested in a variety of aspects related to biography and performance."—Journal of Singing
| Ruth Hellier is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology at University of California Santa Barbara, where she also teaches performance studies and theater.