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Flutes and Gender Roles
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This chapter presents numerous short folktales that pertain to the topic of gender, and includes analysis of gender sub issues, such as flute playing and the reversal of social order, flute playing and gender specificity, and flutes and gender specificity. In most world cultures during modern times, traditional flute playing is limited to men rather than women; North American concert music traditions are an exception, however. This has not always been the case. According to what we can learn from mythology, women at one time were the original flute players, but they had their flutes taken away from them by the men. In anthropology, this is known as a reversal of social order.
Title: Flutes and Gender Roles
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This chapter presents numerous short folktales that pertain to the topic of gender, and includes analysis of gender sub issues, such as flute playing and the reversal of social order, flute playing and gender specificity, and flutes and gender specificity.
In most world cultures during modern times, traditional flute playing is limited to men rather than women; North American concert music traditions are an exception, however.
This has not always been the case.
According to what we can learn from mythology, women at one time were the original flute players, but they had their flutes taken away from them by the men.
In anthropology, this is known as a reversal of social order.
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