Unbinding Gentility

Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South

Unbinding Gentility
Candace Bailey
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h235 x 156mm - 304pg
13 Apr 2021 US
9780252085741
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Hearing southern women in the pauses of history Southern women of all classes, races, and walks of life practiced music during and after the Civil War. Candace L. Bailey examines the history of southern women through the lens of these musical pursuits, uncovering the ways that music' s transmission, education, circulation, and repertory help us understand its meaning in the women' s culture of the time. Bailey pays particular attention to the space between music as an ideal accomplishment-part of how people expected women to perform gentility-and a real practice-what women actually did. At the same time, her ethnographic reading of binder' s volumes, letters and diaries, and a wealth of other archival material informs new and vital interpretations of women' s place in southern culture. A fascinating collective portrait of women' s artistic and personal lives, Unbinding Gentility challenges entrenched assumptions about nineteenth century music and the experiences of the southern women who made it.

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Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South

"Unbinding Gentility dismantles facile stereotypes about women' s music making in the nineteenth century in order to explore the complex intersections of women' s musical practices and social class, race, and region. Women whose experiences have been silenced or caricatured come to life in this richly researched and substantial history of the US South. Bailey reveals how gentility was no predictor of social or economic status, that accomplishment was not solely the domain of white elite women, and that there is much we still need to learn from the material culture of women' s musical lives. "--Glenda Goodman, author of Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic "The author' s archival work and the number of women musicians' lives she has unearthed are remarkable. An extremely worthwhile contribution, particularly in its treatment of the changing nature of women' s repertoire and the rise of professional women musicians. "--Marian Wilson Kimber, author of The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word
Candace Bailey is a professor of music at North Carolina Central University. She is the author of Music and the Southern Belle: From Accomplished Lady to Confederate Composer and Charleston Belles Abroad: The Music Collections of Harriet Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780252085741
Published: 13 Apr 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 304

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