Women in Jazz: Musicality, Femininity, Marginalization

Contents

• 1. A saturated and hierarchized professional world / PART ONE: Jazz singer, such a "feminine" job /
• 2. Vocal jazz, commercial jazz, gendered jazz /
• 3. So "feminine" in such a "masculine" world /
• 4. The voice is not an instrument /
• 5. An irresistible "feminine" seduction /
• 6. Amateur vocal jams: An illusory gendered transgression? / PART TWO: Some "great chicks" /
• 7. Very well "endowed" young women /
• 8. Difficult access to stable working networks /
• 9. Women in a men's world. Reconciling the irreconcilable? /
• 10. Managing one's "femininity" in public: Disparagement, neutrality or seduction?