The Elocutionists

Women, Music, and the Spoken Word

Marian Wilson Kimber (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2017
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08222-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Marian Wilson Kimber is an associate professor of music at the University of Iowa.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.02.2017
Reihe/Serie	Music in American Life
Zusatzinfo	18 black and white photographs, 25 music examples, 10 line drawings
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-252-08222-2 / 0252082222
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08222-1 / 9780252082221
Zustand	Neuware