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  • Unbinding Gentility

    Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South

    by Candace Bailey ...
    Series Book 1 - Music in American Life
    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2022Hearing southern women in the pauses of historySouthern 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 ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Charleston Belles Abroad

    The Music Collections of Harriett Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord

    by Candace Bailey ...
    An examination of the influential role music played in the lives of elite southern women during the antebellum periodIn Charleston Belles Abroad, Candace Bailey examines the vital role music collections played in the lives of elite women of Charleston, South Carolina, in the years leading up to the Civil War.Bailey has studied a substantial archive of music held at several southern libraries, ... Read more

    $43.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Boundaries

    Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England

    Edited by Linda Phyllis Austern, Candace Bailey, Amanda Eubanks Winkler ...
    Series series Music and the Early Modern Imagination
    English music studies often apply rigid classifications to musical materials, their uses, their consumers, and performers. The contributors to this volume argue that some performers and manuscripts from the early modern era defy conventional categorization as "amateur" or "professional," "native" or "foreign." These leading scholars explore the circulation of music and performers in early modern ... Read more

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  • My Old Kentucky Home

    The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song

    by Emily Bingham ...
    "The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home." So begins an American standard, first published as a minstrel song, that became dear to the hearts of millions and ultimately was enshrined as the Kentucky Derby's sonic centerpiece—a popular selling point for Kentucky tourism. Emily Bingham's masterful decoding of Stephen Foster's 1853 ballad reveals that the song was always about slavery and how ... Read more

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  • Mr. Jefferson's Women

    by Jon Kukla ...
    From the acclaimed author of A Wilderness So Immense comes a pioneering study of Thomas Jefferson's relationships with women, both personal and political.The author of the Declaration of Independence, who wrote the words “all men are created equal,” was surprisingly uncomfortable with woman. In eight chapters, Kukla examines the evidence for the founding father's youthful misogyny, beginning with ... Read more

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  • Within the Plantation Household

    Black and White Women of the Old South

    by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese ...
    Series series Gender and American Culture
    Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women’s experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of ... Read more

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  • An Unrecognized Contribution

    Women and Their Work in 19th-Century Toronto

    by Elizabeth Gillan Muir ...
    A treasure trove of incredible lives lived.— RICK MERCER, comedian and authorMuir sets out to restore the faces of women who worked and struggled in nineteenth-century Toronto. A fascinating read.— WARREN CLEMENTS, author and publisherEmphasizes the enormously influential role women had in laying the groundwork for life in the city today.— DR. ROSE A. DYSON, author of Mind Abuse: Media Violence ... Read more

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  • The Afterlife of "Little Women"

    by Beverly Lyon Clark ...
    **"Superb, scrupulously researched . . . a comprehensive narrative for understanding the changing reception of Little Women." —Gregory Eiselein, coeditor of The Louisa May Alcott EncyclopediaThe hit Broadway show of 1912. The lost film of 1919. Katharine Hepburn, as Jo, sliding down a banister in George Cukor's 1933 movie. Mark English's shimmering 1967 illustrations. Jo—this time played by Sutton ... Read more

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  • Unsung: A History of Women in American Music

    by Christine Ammer ...
    This updates and expanded edition of the classic text in the field describes hundreds of women musicians -- composers, instrumentalists, orchestra and opera managers, music educators, and music patrons, and their activity from the 18th to 21st centuries. It includes their most important compositions and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and Gravemeyer Award. It also includes descriptions of ... Read more

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  • Southern Writers

    A New Biographical Dictionary

    Edited by Joseph M. Flora, Amber Vogel ...
    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    This new edition of Southern Writers assumes its distinguished predecessor's place as the essential reference on literary artists of the American South. Broadly expanded and thoroughly revised, it boasts 604 entries-nearly double the earlier edition's-written by 264 scholars. For every figure major and minor, from the venerable and canonical to the fresh and innovative, a biographical sketch and ... Read more

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  • Ragtime

    A Musical and Cultural History

    by Edward Berlin ...
    Ragtime, the jaunty, toe-tapping music that captivated American society from the 1890s through World War I, forms the roots of America's popular musical expression. But the understanding of ragtime and its era has been clouded by a history of murky impressions, half-truths, and inventive fictions. Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History cuts through the murkiness. A methodical survey of thousands ... Read more

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