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The Elocutionists
- Women, Music, and the Spoken Word
Engelsk Hardback
The Elocutionists
- Women, Music, and the Spoken Word
Engelsk Hardback

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Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson Kimber restores elocution with music to its rightful place in performance history. Gazing through the lenses of gender and genre, Wilson Kimber argues that these female artists transgressed the previous boundaries between private and public domains. Their performances advocated for female agency while also contributing to a new social construction of gender. Elocutionists, proud purveyors of wholesome entertainment, pointedly contrasted their "acceptable" feminine attributes against those of morally suspect actresses. As Wilson Kimber shows, their influence far outlived their heyday. Women, the primary composers of melodramatic compositions, did nothing less than create a tradition that helped shape the history of American music.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
352
ISBN-13:
9780252040719
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0252040716
Udg. Dato:
19 jan 2017
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
156mm
Højde:
235mm
Forlag:
University of Illinois Press
Oplagsdato:
19 jan 2017
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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