Women's Bands in America: Performing Music and Gender
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (893 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N8S1QWI |
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| Number of Pages | : | 357 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Women's Military Bands during World War II (Scarecrow Press, 2011). Sullivan is associate professor of Music Education at Arizona State University and author of Bands of Sisters:U.S. Jill M
This collection presents a sweeping 140-year story of successful all-women's bands in the United States and Mexico and fills many gaps in our inherited musical histories. Sullivan, for telling these amazing stories! (Steven N. Highly recommended. Bravo to all of the authors, and especially Dr. Taken together, these essays present a powerful story of resilience, showing that in creating these musical ensembles, women also created an empowering space for their own gendered agency. Jill Sullivan and her contributors have filled the void of women’s mostly forgotten contributions to American bands, and indeed their contributions to music and our culture in general. It would be useful in a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses on gender and music, gender studies, historical musicology and ethnomusicology. U
Castillo Silva, Dawn Farmer, Danelle Larson, Brian Meyers, Sarah Minette, Gayle Murchison, Jeananne Nichols, David Rickels, Joanna Ross Hersey, Sarah Schmalenberger, Amy Spears, and Sondra Wieland Howe.. Thoroughly, contributors engage in archival historical research, biography, case study, content analysis, iconographic study, oral history, and qualitative research to bring their topics to life. This ambitious collection will be of use not only to students and scholars of instrumental music education, music history and ethnomusicology, but also gender studies and American social history.Contributions by: Vilka E. Contributors trace women's emerging roles in society as seen through women's bands—concert and marching—spanning three centuries of American history. They also draw on numerous primary sources: diaries, film, military records, newspaper articles, oral-history interviews, personal letters, photographs, published ephemera, radio broadcasts, and recordings. Authors explore town, immigrant,industry, family, school, suffrage, military, jazz, and rock bands, adopting a variety of methodologies and theoretical lenses in order to assemble and interrogate their findings within the context of women's roles in American society over time.Contributors bring together a series of disciplines in this unique work, including music education, musicology, American history, women's studies, and history of education. Women's B