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The sexual stereotyping of musical instruments in Italian, German, and English society from the beginning of the Renaissance period to the end of the nineteenth century is the object of this essay. Through evidence gleaned from iconography and a variety of written documents, the author demonstrates how the gender association of musical instruments virtually eliminated female participation from important musical activities, ensuring the male domination of the art and preventing women from becoming prominent composers.
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A complete and thorough discography on electroacoustic music in Quebec.
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A man's character is, as Heraclitus once observed, his destiny. Similarly, Frank Zappa noted that "You are what you is". In nomine Zappa, Zappatore proposes a philological as well as iconographic deconstruction of the Italian name/mask (persona), Zappa. The essay suggests that not only is a man's character his daimon but that, moreover, FZ was both an assiduous and subversive artistic worker.
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The oppositional notions of centre and periphery, mainstream and margin, and universal and local have long been important criteria for the scholarly study of Western music. Indeed they are often taken for granted. This paper will take a critical look at the relationship obtaining between art music the notion of a national music. The object of study is taken from among the works of the Canadian composer (of Czech origin) Oskar Morawetz. The point is not to deny that music can be legitimately associated with a given place but rather to examine how these complex, problematic relationships are created and how they evolve and/or dissolve over time.
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Research Framework: Recreational activities and cultural preferences and practices are a way of affirming and situating oneself in the social world, as much by one's class or age as by one's gender or place of residence. To say it in other words: “if you play soccer, like video games and listen to rap music… then you are a working class boy”. Objectives: This articles seeks to question this apparent obviousness, looking at how young working class boys construct their gender through recreational activities, and asking what role is thence played by socializing with masculine family members and friends.Methodology: We use data collected during a qualitative study led though observation and individual interviews with 20 boys and 11 girls who attend two classes of CM21 (10-11 year olds) in a working class neighborhood in the city of Lyon, France.Results: The recreation and sociability network inhabited by the young boys is very masculine, an “entre-soi” or socio-cultural homogeneity that is built against the feminine. As for the parents, their gender roles are well differentiated, and the fathers and mothers interact differently with the boys. Horizontal sociability among peers (brothers, friends, cousins) also plays an important part in taste-making and masculine identification. At the individual level, the ostensibly homogeneous “entre-soi” is less uniform than it seems, and the ways of being a boy turn out to be both varied and hierarchized. Social distinction strategies appear within the gendered order.Conclusions: Hence, this work questions the applicability of the social distinction model, showing that despite the common and shared nature of “the boys'” recreational activities, fine variations of practice set the stage for tiering within the male group.Contribution: It also invites the reader to consider the heterogeneity of social groups through the combined description of what shapes community and what, from within, creates difference.
Keywords: enfance, famille, genre, identité de genre, inégalités sociales, intersectionnalité, socialisation, loisirs, childhood, family, gender, gender identity, social inequality, intersectionnality, socialization, recreational activities
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This paper gives an original reinterpretation of Gell's ethnographic material on the Umeda of New-Guinea, along the lines of the semantic model developed by R. Devisch. Some conclusions are drawn about the structural dimension and role of violence in Umeda culture and beyond. Violence cannot be adequately accounted for by a dualistic structuralist view of society, such as Mauss's or Lévi-Strauss's. It is rather to be seen as a consequence of the utmost development of an order also encoding male supremacy and auto-sufficiency. This “male autonomy” represents, in tum, a paradoxical attempt to reconcile basic oppositions between sexes and generations in Umeda society.
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