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Author Goodman, Glenda, author.

Title Cultivated by hand : amateur musicians in the early American republic / Glenda Goodman.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
©2020

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML3917.U6 G7 2020    Available  ---
Edition First edition.
Description xxvi, 244 pages : illustrations, music, facsimiles ; 25 cm.
Gender group: gdr Women
Nationality/regional group: nat Americans
Occupational/field of activity group: occ University and college faculty members
Series The new cultural history of music
New cultural history of music.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index.
Contents Reproducing music -- Learning music -- Consumerism and the materiality of music books -- Economies of accomplishments -- Appearing tasteful.
Summary "Hundreds of volumes filled with hand-copied music sit in archives and libraries across the United States. Created by amateur musicians who came of age in the years following the American Revolution, these manuscript books reveal the existence musical culture that was deeply intertwined in people's everyday lives and at the same time in powerful historical forces that were shaping the new nation. Cultivated by Hand is a social and material history of musical amateurism that traces the structural forces that shaped amateurs' experiences and delves how those forces manifested in individuals' lives. This book argues that amateur music making played an important and heretofore unacknowledged role in the making of gender, class, race, and nation in the early American republic. Moreover, much of the repertoire collected by relatively elite, white amateurs was imported from Britain, undermining concurrent efforts to foster a national musical style. Cultivated by Hand situates the making of manuscript books in a broader cultural context, exploring manuscript's relationship to print as well as changes in music consumerism in the late eighteenth century. Creating manuscripts required hour upon hour of work, yet the labor of amateur musicians, particularly women, was discursively and economically devalued. The gendered attacks obscured the importance of copying and performing for the self-fashioning of amateurs, who used their efforts to cultivate gentility, piety, and erudition, as well as sensible connection to others"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Music -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Music -- Social aspects.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Music -- Manuscripts -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Music -- Manuscripts.
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Online version: Goodman, Glenda, Cultivated by hand [First edition] New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. 9780190884925 (DLC) 2019043006
ISBN 9780190884901 hardcover
0190884908 hardcover
9780190884925 electronic book
9780190884932 electronic book
9780190884918 electronic book