Re: de-gendering; Grove

[Francesco Spagnolo <yuval.italia...>]

Judith,

thank you for being so frank in your assessment -- it's fresh air, 
and it does a lot of good to our discussions!

I happen to agree with you -- although I think in the "De-gendering" 
article Edwin was trying to fiddle with the notion of gender studies, 
and this topic is particularly culture-oriented (that is, I feel that 
all of us non-North Americans either have a different take on the 
subject, or have been exposed to it in entirely different ways...). 
Altogether, I enjoyed the article; but I'll go over the quotes and 
try to understand better what you mean.

Regarding the Grove "Jewish Music" entry, I have another caveat -- 
that is, that the "Italian" traditions are presented as a sub-gender 
of Sephardi music, and do not seem to deserve a separate treatment 
(as, for instance, does Jewish music in China...).

But, in general I find the entry quite good, and a good match to the 
masterful "Music" entry in the Encyclopaedia Judaica.

f.

PS
BTW, the New Gove also has a wonderful "Ethnomusicology" entry...


>hi, re the various references to Edwin's work, that "De-gendering"
>article is, I think, the only thing he's ever written that I HAVEN'T
>found to be really excellent, sort of jumps on the gender studies
>bandwagon. (And also quotes some of my work on women in Judeo-Spanish
>song out of context so it kind of changes what I had meant in those
>articles). But it's an exception: mostly anything by Edwin is really
>fine.
>
>By the way, in the new Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, it would
>be interesting to see people's reactions to the various sections of the
>long entry on Jewish music. The one on Judeo-Spanish music I find not up
>to the standard of most of  the other sections, not inaccurate or
>anything like that, but kind of stuck in a couple-of-decades-old
>groove.



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