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  1. The elocutionists
    women, music, and the spoken word
    Author: Kimber, Marian Wilson
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana ; Chicaco ; Springfield

    "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... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780252040719; 9780252082221
    RVK Categories: LR 57716
    Series: Music in American life
    Subjects: MUSIC / History & Criticism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies; Geschichte; Oral interpretation; Elocutionists; Women and literature; Women and literature; Women performance artists; Music theater; Readers' theater; Choral speaking; Oral reading; MUSIC / History & Criticism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies; Deklamation; Frau; Musiktheater
    Scope: xvii, 324 Seiten, Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. The elocutionists
    women, music, and the spoken word
    Author: Kimber, Marian Wilson
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana

    "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... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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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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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780252082221; 9780252040719
    RVK Categories: LR 57716
    Series: Music in American life
    Subjects: Oral interpretation; Elocutionists; Women and literature; Women and literature; Women performance artists; Music theater; Readers' theater; Choral speaking; Oral reading
    Scope: xvii, 324 pages, illustrations, 25 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-310) and index
  3. The elocutionists
    women, music, and the spoken word
    Author: Kimber, Marian Wilson
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana

    "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... more

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    8 A 5820
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    Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Bibliothek
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    Mus 03 c.69
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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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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780252082221; 9780252040719
    RVK Categories: LR 57716
    Series: Music in American life
    Subjects: Oral interpretation; Elocutionists; Women and literature; Women and literature; Women performance artists; Music theater; Readers' theater; Choral speaking; Oral reading
    Scope: xvii, 324 pages, illustrations, 25 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-310) and index