De: antenorferreira@yahoo.com.br
Guest editors: Antenor Ferreira Corrêa (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) and Sam de Boise (Örebro University, Sweden)
When people hear the word ‘gender’, they may think that whatever follows must be about things that affect women, or about differences between males and females. Yet girls and boys act very differently to adult men and women, depending on the cultural context. There are people who do not identify with either binary male or female categories, people who identify with a different category than the one they were assigned at birth, people who identify as intersex, or third or fourth genders, amongst numerous others gender configurations.
Thinking only in terms of numbers of ‘males’ and ‘females’, misses a lot of people who experience their gender and gender discrimination in different ways. At the same time, as ethnomusicologists and musicologists have demonstrated that it is possible to ‘read’ gender in music in different ways. Through adopting queer, feminist and gender-critical perspectives, these have shown that music can be a force for understanding gender differently and for challenging gender inequalities within societies at large.
With this in mind, PERMUSI would like to invite contributions from authors who are writing or researching gender in relation to music. We warmly invite contributions on the theme of gender in music which explore, but are not limited to:
Gender inequalities in different music contexts
Reading gender in music
Gender and music performance
Gender and music composition
Masculinities/femininities in music
Postcolonial and/or non-Western approaches to gender in music
Queer approaches to gender in music
Complete article proposals for this special Issue should be written only in English and submitted through PERMUSI’s online submission system at www.musica.ufmg.br/permusi by January 31st.