Women and Music in Sri Lanka

Contents:Articles * The Guest Editors: Preface * Martina Claus-Bachmann: Kuveni or The Curse of a Woman as a Flash Point for Music-oriented (Re-)Constructions * Mangalika Rajapakse: Songs Associated with Sri Lanka's Paddy Cultivation - Aspects of Music and Gender * Almut Jayaweera: Vannamas: A Classical Dance Form and its Musical Structure * Waidyawathie Rajapakse: On the Origin of Sri Lankan Dancing: Between Spirit Beliefs and Great Tradition, Appeasement of the Gods, and Healing Methods * Marianne Nürnberger: Vajira - The First Professional Female Dancer of the Sinhalese Style * Sabine Grosser: Changing Worlds: Music, Women and Fine Arts in Postcolonial Sri Lanka - A Critical Reading of Four Sri Lankan Artworks of Female Authorship, Relating to the World of Music * Vasana de Mel: "Ehkee maara baduwakne" (Isn't She a Hot Item?): Contradictions and Controversy Facing Sri Lankan Women in Chorus baila and Sinhala Pop Music ***Book Reviews (Tina K. Ramnarine, ed.) * Sharon Meredith: Steven Loza, ed., Musical Cultures of Latin America: Global Effects, Past and Present. Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology, volume XI * Bethany Jo Smith: Loren Chuse, The Cantaoras: Music, Gender, and Identity in Flamenco Song * Avior Byron: Harald Krebs, Fantasy Pieces: Metrical Dissonances in the Music of Robert Schumann ***CD Reviews (Gregory F. Barz, ed.) * Azzi, Maria Susana: Nocturno. Tango Siempre, ARC * Blum, Stephen: Iranian Kurdistan, The Ritual Maqam of the Yarsan; Ali akbar Moradi, chanting and tanbur, Inedit/Maison des Cultures du Monde, and Kurdish Music from Iran, Ali Akbar Moradi: Mystical Odes and Secular Music, Inedit/Maison des Cultures du Monde * Berg, Birgit: Music of Indonesia, vols. 16-20, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings * Leon, Javier F.: Traditional Music of Peru, Vol. 5: Celebrating Divinity in the High Andes, and Traditinal Music of Peru, Vol. 6: The Ayacucho Region, Smithsonian Folkways * Strawn, Cullen B.: Bembeya Jazz: Bembeya. World Village (Harmonia Mundi) *