Women's Leadership in Music: Modes, Legacies, Alliances

Iva Nenic is an ethnomusicologist and cultural theorist who works as an assistant professor at University of Arts, Belgrade. Her research is concerned with the way music and wider cultural practices give rise to ideology and help enact social identities, with a focus on gender and the politics of intersectionality, as well as on the relationship between sustainability and anthropocenic aspects of contemporary culture. She is the leader of the scientific research project »Female Leadership in Music« (FLIM), supported by the Science Fund of Serbia.

Linda Cimardi is an ethnomusicologist working as principal investigator in the DFG-funded project »Black Musics in the Region of (Former) Yugoslavia« at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. She holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Bologna (2013). Her main areas of interest are African musics, gender in music and dance, politics and aesthetics of world music.