03382oam 22007214a 450 991016273640332120210111221041.00-252-09915-X(CKB)3710000001040889(StDuBDS)EDZ0001724047(OCoLC)958371523(MdBmJHUP)muse57061(MiAaPQ)EBC4792732(EXLCZ)99371000000104088920160909d2017 uy 0engur|||||||||||rdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Elocutionists Women, Music, and the Spoken Word /Marian Wilson KimberUrbana University of Illinois Press20171 online resource illustrations (black and white)Music in American lifePreviously issued in print: 2017.0-252-08222-2 0-252-04071-6 Includes bibliographical references and index."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"--Provided by publisher.Music in American life.SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's StudiesbisacshMUSIC / History & CriticismbisacshOral readingUnited StatesChoral speakingReaders' theaterMusic theaterUnited StatesWomen performance artistsUnited StatesWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryWomen and literatureUnited StatesHistory19th centuryElocutionistsUnited StatesOral interpretationElectronic books. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.MUSIC / History & Criticism.Oral readingChoral speaking.Readers' theater.Music theaterWomen performance artistsWomen and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryElocutionistsOral interpretation.808.54MUS020000SOC028000bisacshKimber Marian Wilson1960-1249829MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910162736403321The Elocutionists2896140UNINA