Women's bands in America : performing music and gender / edited by Jill M. Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sullivan, Jill M., 1963- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's bands (Music)--United States--History.

Women's bands (Music).

Bands (Music)--United States--History.

Bands (Music).

Women musicians--United States.

Women musicians.

History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 373 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]

Summary:

Women's Bands in America is the first comprehensive exploration of women's bands across the three centuries in American history. Contributors trace women's emerging roles in society as seen through women's bands--concert and marching--spanning three centuries of American history. Authors explore town, immigrant, industry, family, school, suffrage, military, jazz, and rock bands, adopting a variety of methodologies and theoretical lenses in order to assemble and interrogate their findings within the context of women's roles in American society over time. Contributors bring together a series of disciplines in this unique work, including music education, musicology, American history, women's studies, and history of education. They also draw on numerous primary sources: diaries, film, military records, newspaper articles, oral-history interviews, personal letters, photographs, published ephemera, radio broadcasts, and recordings. Thoroughly, contributors engage in archival historical research, biography, case study, content analysis, iconographic study, oral history, and qualitative research to bring their topics to life. This ambitious collection will be of use not only to students and scholars of instrumental music education, music history and ethnomusicology, but also gender studies and American social history. Contributions by: Vilka E. Castillo Silva, Dawn Farmer, Danelle Larson, Brian Meyers, Sarah Minette, Gayle Murchison, Jeananne Nichols, David Rickels, Joanna Ross Hersey, Sarah Schmalenberger, Amy Spears, and Sondra Wieland Howe.

Contents:

Helen May Butler and her ladies' military band : being professional during the Golden Age of Bands / Brian D. Meyers

Town bands, 1880-1920 / Sondra Wieland Howe

"An attraction of unusual merit" : women's bands on the vaudeville stage / Joanna Ross Hersey

All-female school bands : separate spheres and gender equality / Jill M. Sullivan and Amy E. Spears

Legacies of leadership : Lillian Williams Linsey and Gladys Stone Wright / Dawn M. Farmer and David A. Rickels

A survey of all-female drum and bugle corps featuring the Hormel Girls / Danelle D. Larson

Mary Lou Williams's Girl Stars and the politics of negotiation : jazz, gender, and Jim Crow / Gayle Murchison

Parading women : the commodification of women's military bands during World War II / Jill M. Sullivan

Into the wild blue yonder : a history of the US WAF Band, 1949-1961 / Jeananne Nichols

Rockin' it local : all-female rock bands in the Twin Cities / Sarah Schmalenberger and Sarah M. Minette

Blowing the tradition : women performing in the Banda Sinfónica de Marina-Armada de México / Vilka Elisa Castillo Silva.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Women's bands in America

ISBN:

9781442254404

1442254408

OCLC:

958798167