Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists Since 1860
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Book Description
This wide-ranging collection brings together leading authorities on the social history of American art music to reveal the indispensable contribution that women have made to American musical life. Some chapters discuss collective endeavors, such as music clubs, Wagnerites, supporters of "modern music" in the 1920s, and activists in African American communities, while others focus on the work of a single, strikingly individual patron such as Isabella Stewart Gardner or Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Primary sources such as private letters and autobiographies are utilized, and documentary vignettes scattered throughout the book bring to life important events and reminiscences. Among these are an interview with Betty Freeman, noted patron of avant-garde music, and advice from Mildred Bliss to Nadia Boulanger. Extensive opening and closing chapters provide conceptual and factual background on music in America and draw out the larger implications of women's patronage in the past, present, and future.
From the Back Cover
"The Victorian cup on my shelf (a present from my mother (reads 'Love the Giver.' Is it because the very word patronage implies the authority of the father that we have treated American women patrons and activists so unlovingly in the writing of our own history? This pioneering collection of superb scholarship redresses that imbalance. At the same time it brilliantly documents the interrelationship between various aspects of gender and the creation of our own culture." (Judith Tick, author of Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music)
Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists Since 1860
Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists Since 1860,Ralph P. Locke,Cyrilla Barr,University of California Press,0520083954,19th century,Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal,History & Criticism - General,History and criticism,Music,Music patronage,Popular Culture - General,Social Aspects Of Music,Social Science,Sociology,United States,Women And Art,Women music patrons,Women's Studies - General
Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists Since 1860
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