Various modes of women's contemporary cultural social and political leadership can be found in
music. Informed by different histories and culturally bound social mores but also by a
comparative perspective the contributors of this volume ask what can be considered leadership
in culture from women's point of view. They deconstruct the notion of leadership as corporative
and career-related modes of success by showing how women's agency power and negotiation in and
through music can and should be considered as empowering transformative and role-modeling. By
interweaving several disciplinary perspectives - from ethnomusicology musicology and cultural
management to sociology and anthropology - this volume aims to substantially contribute to the
study of women's leadership.
