Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean Condition:Good leaving survivors on their own

leaving survivors on their own against a legion of the infected

From local bars to trainyards to prison

And with the kind of storytelling magic that is the hallmark of Rushdie’s work

Paul Stephenson offers a nuanced and deeply satisfying account of a man whose cultural and spiritual renewal of the Roman Empire gave birth to the idea of a unified Christian Europe underpinned by a commitment to religious tolerance

Music and Gender: Perspectives from the Mediterranean Condition:Good leaving survivors on their ownAlthough scholars have long been aware of the crucial roles that gender plays in music, and vice versa, the contributors to this volume are among the first to systematically examine the interactions between the two. This book explores the diverse, yet often strikingly similar, musics of the areas bordering the Mediterranean from comparative anthropological perspectives. From Spanish flamenco to Algerian ra, Greek rebetika to Turkish pop music,