Music-Making, Ritual, and Gender in a Southeast Asian Hill Society

The A. explores the ways in which music-making and gender differences mutually shape one another in a hill society in island Southeast Asia. The questions raised have to do with the role music-making plays in producing or subverting gender-based hierarchies of prestige and authority : Does music support or threaten predominant ideas about gender ? How does it shape the way in which women and men experience sexual hierarchy ? Can music-making itself be a form of sexual politics ?