This roundtable examines grief and loss in gendered contexts, with a focus on their musicultural manifestations. Our discussion spans collective and individual memory practices (Frawley 2012, Casey 1987) and explores how women recover from trauma through embodied practices in ceremonial spaces (Belloni 2019, McBride 2021). Across five cultures and geographical locations, our presenters ask how grief is navigated, how social oppression is addressed, and how communities recover from loss. The first roundtable presenter considers a Central Australian women’s ceremony which is closed following a death and subsequently reopened, illustrating how this embodied collective activity facilitates transition from a mourning period. Our second participant explores how Irish song serves as a vehicle for communal lament, using cross-disciplinary approaches to examine its role in cultural memory, gendered resistance, and diasporic identity. Our third participant examines how the Albanian communist regime suppressed and co-opted traditional women's lamentation practices for propaganda, compelling women to modify their mourning behaviors to navigate societal repression and trauma. Incorporating Italian tarantism as a case study, our fourth presenter investigates how trauma survivors re-voice and embody grief to become autonomous in their own recovery. Our final participant explores how Chinese kujia lament enables practitioners to relive past memories and transforms remembrance into a cathartic and therapeutic engagement with the present. The roundtable will conclude with a discussion in which participants further outline their methodologies—including interviews, autoethnography, literary research, observation, and lyrical, sonic, and gestural analysis—while co-creating a multifaceted framework for studying grief and loss through gendered lenses in ethnomusicology.