Welcome!

This is the companion website to accompany the printed book, Women Singers in Global Contexts: Music, Biography, Identity, edited by Ruth Hellier, with an Afterword by Ellen Koskoff.

If you haven't yet bought the book, now is the time to do so – so that you can read about these amazing women singers.

Exploring and celebrating individual lives in diverse situations, Women Singers in Global Contexts is a new departure in the study of women's worldwide music-making.

Ten unique women constitute the heart of the book: each one has engaged her singing voice as a central element in her life, experiencing various opportunities, tensions, and choices through her vocality.

Through this website you have the opportunity to hear these women singing.

Enjoy!

Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, PhD
rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

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		Ixya Herrera Gracefully Nurturing "Mexico" with Song in the USA by Ruth Hellier
	Ayben The Girl's Voice in Turkish Rap by Thomas Solomon		Kyriakou Pelagia The Housewife/ Grandmother-Star of Cyprus by Nicoletta Demetriou
Amelia Pedroso The Voice of a Cuban Priestess Leading from the Inside by Amanda Villepastour				Marysia's Voice Defining Home through Song in Poland and Canada by Louise Wrazen
Lexine Solomon Songs of Connection and Celebration by a Torres Strait Islander by Katelyn Barney				Zainab Herawi Finding Acclaim in the Conservative Islamic Culture of Afghanistan by Veronica Doubleday
	Sima's Choices Negotiating Repertoires and Identities in Contemporary Iran by Gay Breyley		Akiko Fujii Telling the Musical Life Stories of a Hereditary Jiuta Singer of Japan by Shino Arisawa
		Sathima Bea Benjamin Musical Echoes and the Poetics of a South African-American Musical Self by Carol Muller