Staging Socialist Femininity

Gender Politics and Folklore Performance in Serbia
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-19179-2
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 434 g

Reihe: Balkan Studies Library

Ana Hofman examines the negotiation of the gender performances in Serbian rural areas as a result of the socialist gender policy and creation of the new “femininity” in the public sphere. She focuses on the stage performances of female amateur groups at the Village Gatherings, state-sponsored events held from the 1970s through the mid-1990s in the southeastern Serbian region of Niško Polje. Offering a multifaceted picture of the personal experiences of the socialist ideology of gender equality, Staging Socialist Femininity investigates the complex relationships between personal, interpersonal and political levels in socialism. By showing the interplay between ideology, representational and social practices in the realm of musical performance, it challenges the strong division in scholarly narratives between ideology and practice in socialist societies.

Zielgruppe

All readers interested in culture in socialist and post-socialist societies, socialist gender and culture politics, traditional music and folklore; experts in Ethnomusicology, Gender Studies, Anthropology, Slavic Studies, History and Balkan Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hofman, Ana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Music Examples
List of Audio and Video Examples on CD
List of Photographs
List of Figures
INTRODUCTION
GENDER PERFORMANCE IN SOUTHEASTERN SERBIA
Concepts of Femininity in Rural Serbia
Portraits of the Female Singers
Performing Femininity
VILLAGE GATHERINGS: THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION
Creating the New Folk Culture
The Ambiguity of Cultural Policy
Village Gatherings in the Official Discourses
Village Gatherings in the Personal Narratives
REPERTOIRE
Official Music and Local Taste
Indirect Intervention in the Repertoire
Direct Intervention in the Repertoire
Transgressing Gender Roles?
SINGING EXCLUSION
State Feminism
Gender and Body Politics in Niško Polje
Overstepping the Boundaries
Dangerous Profession
Stage Performance as Performative Negotiation
New Concepts of Identity, Subjectivity and Self-Representation
CONCLUDING REMARKS
References
Appendix 1: List of Villages and Interlocutors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hofman, Ana
Ana R. Hofman, Ph.D. (2007) in Ethnomusicology, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Scientific-Research Centre of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Assistant Professor at University of Nova Gorica. Her research intrests include gender politics and music in socialist and postsocialist societies with a particular focus on former Yugoslavia.