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The elocutionists : women, music, and the spoken word /
"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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Music in American life.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface: Hearing Lost Voices; Acknowledgments; 1. The Odyssey of a Nice Girl: Elocution and Women's Cultural Aspirations; 2. Making Elocution Musical: Accompanied Recitation and the Musical Voice; 3. Reading the Fairies: Shakespeare in Concert with Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream; 4. Sentimentality and Gender in Musically Accompanied Recitations; 5. Grecian Urns in Iowa Towns: Delsarte and The Music Man; 6. In Another Voice: Women and Dialect Recitations.
- 7. Womanly Women and Moral Uplift: Female Readers and Concert Companies on the Chautauqua Circuit8. Multiplying Voices: American Women and the Music of Choral Speaking; 9. Words and Music Ladies: The Careers of Phyllis Fergus and Frieda Peycke; 10. Women's Work, Women's Humor: Musical Recitations by Female Composers; Afterword: Echoes of Elocutionary Arts; Appendix; Notes; Index.