LEADER 00000cam a2200745 i 4500 001 ocn946905386 003 OCoLC 005 20220601051329.0 008 160909s2017 ilua b s001 0 eng 010 2016023977 019 980936785 020 9780252040719|q(hardcover) 020 0252040716|q(hardcover) 020 9780252082221|q(paperback) 020 0252082222|q(paperback) 020 |z9780252099151|q(ebook) 040 DLC|beng|erda|cDLC|dBTCTA|dYDXCP|dBDX|dOCLCO|dOCLCA|dOCLCF |dOCLCO|dSPI|dYDX|dOCLCO|dVA@|dOCLCQ|dCHVBK|dOCLCO|dOCLCA |dTDF|dICV|dOCLCA|dUKMGB|dOCLCA|dOCLCO|dWCH 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 049 WCHA 050 00 PN4145|b.K56 2017 090 PN4145|b.K56 2017 100 1 Wilson Kimber, Marian,|d1960-|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n2016049140|eauthor. 245 14 The elocutionists :|bwomen, music, and the spoken word / |cMarian Wilson Kimber. 264 1 Urbana :|bUniversity of Illinois Press,|c[2017] 300 xvii, 324 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm. 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 490 1 Music in American life 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 The odyssey of a nice girl : elocution and women's cultural aspirations -- Making elocution musical : accompanied recitation and the musical voice -- Reading the fairies : Shakespeare in concert with Mendelssohn's A midsummer night's dream -- Sentimentality and gender in musically accompanied recitations -- Grecian urns in Iowa towns : Delsarte and The music man -- In another voice : women and dialect recitations -- Womanly women and moral uplift : female readers and concert companies on the Chautauqua circuit -- Multiplying voices : American women and the music of choral speaking -- Words and music ladies : the careers of Phyllis Fergus and Frieda Peycke -- Women's work, women's humor : musical recitations by female composers -- Afterword: Echoes of elocutionary arts -- Appendix. 520 "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" --|cProvided by publisher. 648 7 19th century|2fast 648 7 20th century|2fast 648 7 1800-1999|2fast 650 0 Oral interpretation.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85095240 650 0 Elocutionists|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85042634|zUnited States.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities /names/n78095330-781 650 0 Women and literature|zUnited States|xHistory|y19th century.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh2008113610 650 0 Women and literature|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th century.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh2008113456 650 0 Women performance artists|zUnited States.|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004005120 650 0 Music theater|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh95005221|zUnited States.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities /names/n78095330-781 650 0 Readers' theater.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects /sh85111658 650 0 Choral speaking.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85024706 650 0 Oral reading.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/ sh85095249 650 7 Oral interpretation.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1047072 650 7 Elocutionists.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/908209 650 7 Women and literature.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1177093 650 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 650 7 Women performance artists.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/ fast/1200593 650 7 Music theater.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1030617 650 7 Oral reading.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1047101 650 7 Readers' theater.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1090616 650 7 MUSIC|xHistory & Criticism.|2bisacsh 650 7 Choral speaking.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 858551 650 7 SOCIAL SCIENCE|xWomen's Studies.|2bisacsh 651 7 United States.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204155 655 7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 776 08 |iOnline version:|aKimber, Marian Wilson, 1960- |tElocutionists.|dUrbana : University of Illinois Press, 2017|z9780252099151|w(DLC) 2016041884 830 0 Music in American life.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ names/n42017239 901 MARCIVE 20231220 994 C0|bWCH
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