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Cultivated by Hand
- Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic
Engelsk Paperback
Cultivated by Hand
- Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic
Engelsk Paperback

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Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand by eighteenth-century amateurs. Often overlooked, amateur music making played a key role in the construction of gender, class, race, and nation in the post-revolution years of the United States. These early Americans, seeking ways to present themselves as genteel, erudite, and pious, saw copying music by hand and performing it in intimate social groups as a way to make themselvesand their new nationappear culturally sophisticated. Following a select group of amateur musicians, Cultivated by Hand makes the case that amateur music making was both consequential to American culture of the eighteenth century and aligned with other forms of self-fashioning. This interdisciplinary study explores the social and material practices of amateur music making, analyzing the materiality of manuscripts, tracing the lives of individual musicians, and uncovering their musical tastes and sensibilities. Author Glenda Goodman explores highly personal yet often denigrated experiences of musically "accomplished" female amateurs in particular, who grappled with finding a meaningful place in their lives for music. Revealing the presence of these unacknowledged subjects in music history, Cultivated by Hand reclaims the importance of such work and presents a class of musicians whose labors should be taken into account.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780197776995
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
019777699X
Udg. Dato:
29 aug 2024
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
156mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato:
29 aug 2024
Forfatter(e):
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