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Unbinding gentility : women making music in the nineteenth-century South / Candace Bailey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bailey, Candace, 1963- author.
- Series:
- Music in American life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women musicians--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Women musicians.
- Musicians--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Musicians.
- Women--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Women.
- Women--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Music--Social aspects--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Music.
- Music and race--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Music and race.
- Binder's volumes (Music)--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Binder's volumes (Music).
- History.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 292 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction. "One would like to know"
- PART 1. SOCIAL DIVERSITY AMONG AMATEUR WOMEN MUSICIANS. "The circle in which you move" : Gentility, Music, and White Women ; "Colored girls under the control of colored teachers" : Gentility, Music, and Women of Color
- PART 2. REPERTORY. "Home! Sweet Home!' with brilliant variations" : Melody ; "I have no time to tell you now half the enjoyment these operas have given us" : Opera as Cultural Capital
- PART 3. SCIENTIFIC MUSIC AND PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS. "Distinguished success ... in teaching Music as a Science": Genteel Women Scientists ; "Of that ilk": Foreign Music Teachers and Genteel Pupils ; "A remarkable accomplishment for one of the gentle sex" : Other Professionals
- PART 4. THE CIVIL WAR. "The female tribe as 'angels' on earth ... is being ... entirely dissipated" : The Parlor and the Civil War ; "Many shades of caste and kind" : The Civil War and the Public Gaze
- PART 5. WOMEN MUSICIANS IN THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA. "She takes up music as a profession" : Career Women ; "Beethoven wrote it
- that is enough" : Reconstructed Women Reconstructing Repertory
- Conclusion. "This old piece of music keeps her name like a flower pressed in a book".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 12, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bailey, Candace, 1963- Unbinding gentility
- ISBN:
- 9780252052651
- 025205265X
- Publisher Number:
- 40030476068
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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