Eleanor Smith's Hull House songs : the music of protest and hope in Jane Addams's Chicago / by Graham Cassano, Rima Lunin Schultz, Jessica Payette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cassano, Graham, author.

Schultz, Rima Lunin, 1943- author.

Payette, Jessica, author.

Series:

Studies in Critical Social Sciences 131.

Studies in critical social sciences ; 131

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music by women composers--United States--History and criticism.

Music by women composers.

Protest songs--United States--History and criticism.

Protest songs.

Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.).

Smith, Eleanor, 1858-1942--Criticism and interpretation.

Smith, Eleanor.

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.

Addams, Jane.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

In Eleanor Smith’s Hull House Songs : The Music of Protest and Hope in Jane Addams’s Chicago , the authors republish Hull House Songs (1916), together with critical commentary. Hull-House Songs contains five politically engaged compositions written by the Hull-House music educator, Eleanor Smith. The commentary that accompanies the folio includes an examination of Smith’s poetic sources and musical influences; a study of Jane Addams’s aesthetic theories; and a complete history of the arts at Hull-House. Through this focus upon aesthetic and cultural programs at Hull-House, the authors identify the external, and internalized, forces of domination (class position, racial identity, patriarchal disenfranchisement) that limited the work of the Hull-House women, while also recovering the sometimes hidden emancipatory possibilities of their legacy. With an afterword by Jocelyn Zelasko.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Acknowledgements

Illustrations

Introductory Note / Jessica Payette , Graham Cassano and Rima Lunin Schultz

Hull House Songs

Hull House Songs and the “Public” / Graham Cassano and Jessica Payette

Hull House Songs and Jane Addams’s Political Aesthetic / Graham Cassano

Eleanor Smith’s Operettas for Children / Jessica Payette

Eleanor Smith and Her Circle: Female Patronage, Cultural Production, and Friendship at Hull-House / Rima Lunin Schultz

Cultural Pedagogy at Hull-House: Shaping Ethical Behavior through Performance / Rima Lunin Schultz

Democratizing Culture and Mediating Class: The Arts at Hull-House, 1889–1945 / Rima Lunin Schultz

Hull-House and ‘Jim Crow’ / Rima Lunin Schultz

Eleanor Smith’s Hull House Songs: A Singer’s Perspective / Jocelyn Zelasko

Back Matter

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Smith, Eleanor, 1858-1942. Hull House songs.

ISBN:

90-04-38405-7

90-04-28965-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004384057 DOI