In this song from southern Poland, the women singing engage in a first-person narrative in whichthey position themselves discursively within a surrounding mountain landscape of the Tatra Mountainsby sending their voices into this land (see fig. 6.1). At the same time, depending on where they aresinging, they may or may not actually be placing themselves—through their singingvoices—physically into the hills and valleys that this text describes. What is thesignificance of this song and this singing within the experience of place? What is the relationshipbetween singer, landscape, and song? How is this affected by gender, age, and modernity? Thischapter addresses such questions in considering gendered musical performance among the Góraleof Podhale, Poland (map 6.1). By locating women's singing within its environment, thischapter aims to show how singing, place, and gendered identity coalesce. It also elaborates on theindividual experience of singing by examining one exceptional singer's negotiation ofgendered performance practice and her ongoing attachment to the landscape.