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FLORES, Marta. Mummy plays tonight: A look on the Neuquen musical life from a gender's perspective. Aljaba [online]. 2009, vol.13. ISSN 1669-5704.

This article foculizes the musical activity in Neuquén from a gender perspective. In this sense, we have explored diverse scopes in which this activity is developed, investigating about the meaning and representations constructed by women and men about the paper of first in both popular an academic music.. The gender perspective, relatively recent in the musicological theory, has been influenced by of the postmodern philosophies and their critics to the vanguardistas postulates of musical autonomy. In the methodologic plane, we have privileged the ethnographic method and with techniques of participant observation and structured interviews semi. These have been made to women professional interpreters or semiprofessional of the music of the city of Neuquén, having like such that makes with certain regularity a musical public execution, even though, as it happens in most of the musicians and neuquinos musics, it is not that unique or main work.

Palavras-chave : Popular and academic music; Woman and music activities.