Unbinding gentility : women making music in the nineteenth-century South / Candace Bailey.

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"Southern women of all classes, races, and walks of life practiced music during and after the Civil War. Candace 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 unde...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Music in American life.
Main Author: Bailey, Candace, 1963- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Series:Music in American life.
Subjects:
Women musicians > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Musicians > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Women > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Women > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Music > Social aspects > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Music and race > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Binder's volumes (Music) > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Music and race.
Music > Social aspects.
Musicians.
Women.
Women musicians.
Women > Social conditions.
Southern States.
1800-1899
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xviii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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".