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.

Illinois scholarship online.

Music in American life

Illinois scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women musicians--Southern States--History--19th century.

Women 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).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 292 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021.

Summary:

Hearing southern women in the pauses of history Southern women of all classes, races, and walks of life practiced music during and after the Civil War. Candace L. Bailey examines the history of southern women through the lens of these musical pursuits, uncovering the ways that music's transmission, education, circulation, and repertory help us understand its meaning in the women's culture of the time. Bailey pays particular attention to the space between music as an ideal accomplishment - part of how people expected women to perform gentility - and a real practice - what women actually did.

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:

Also issued in print: 2021.

"Publication supported by grants from the Henry and Edna Binkele Classical Music Fund and from the Donna Cardamone Jackson Fund, Joseph Kerman Fund, and General Fund of the American Musicological Society, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 11, 2021).

ISBN:

9780252052651

9780252043758

0252043758

OCLC:

1202730450