Professional trajectories of women in jazz. A matter of gender, authenticity, and musical specialization.
Artistic professions reflect practices that often render trajectories defined by gender relations invisible. This article analyzes how musical specialization, and the idea of jazz 'authenticity' determine professional opportunities and difficulties from a comparative perspective in Spain and the Uni...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 35; no. 6; pp. 1595 - 1611 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2026
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