LEADER 03382oam 22007214a 450 001 9910162736403321 005 20210111221041.0 010 $a0-252-09915-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000001040889 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001724047 035 $a(OCoLC)958371523 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse57061 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4792732 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001040889 100 $a20160909d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Elocutionists $eWomen, Music, and the Spoken Word /$fMarian Wilson Kimber 210 $aUrbana $cUniversity of Illinois Press$d2017 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations (black and white) 225 0 $aMusic in American life 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2017. 311 $a0-252-08222-2 311 $a0-252-04071-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $a"Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson Kimber restores elocution with music to its rightful place in performance history. Gazing through the lenses of gender and genre, Wilson Kimber argues that these female artists transgressed the previous boundaries between private and public domains. Their performances advocated for female agency while also contributing to a new social construction of gender. Elocutionists, proud purveyors of wholesome entertainment, pointedly contrasted their "acceptable" feminine attributes against those of morally suspect actresses. As Wilson Kimber shows, their influence far outlived their heyday. Women, the primary composers of melodramatic compositions, did nothing less than create a tradition that helped shape the history of American music"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aMusic in American life. 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies$2bisacsh 606 $aMUSIC / History & Criticism$2bisacsh 606 $aOral reading$zUnited States 606 $aChoral speaking 606 $aReaders' theater 606 $aMusic theater$zUnited States 606 $aWomen performance artists$zUnited States 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aElocutionists$zUnited States 606 $aOral interpretation 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. 615 7$aMUSIC / History & Criticism. 615 0$aOral reading 615 0$aChoral speaking. 615 0$aReaders' theater. 615 0$aMusic theater 615 0$aWomen performance artists 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aElocutionists 615 0$aOral interpretation. 676 $a808.54 686 $aMUS020000$aSOC028000$2bisacsh 700 $aKimber$b Marian Wilson$f1960-$01249829 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910162736403321 996 $aThe Elocutionists$92896140 997 $aUNINA