Women's Bands in America
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Women's Bands in America

Performing Music and Gender

  1. 387 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Women's Bands in America

Performing Music and Gender

About this book

Women's Bands in America is the first comprehensive exploration of women's bands across the three centuries in American history. Contributors trace women's emerging roles in society as seen through women's bands—concert and marching—spanning three centuries of American history. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. 1 Introduction
  4. 2 Helen May Butler and Her Ladies’ Military Band
  5. 3 Town Bands, 1880–1920
  6. 4 ā€œAn Attraction of Unusual Meritā€
  7. 5 All-Female School Bands
  8. 6 Legacies of Leadership
  9. 7 A Survey of All-Female Drum and Bugle Corps Featuring the Hormel Girls
  10. 8 Mary Lou Williams’s Girl Stars and the Politics of Negotiation
  11. 9 Parading Women
  12. 10 Into the Wild Blue Yonder
  13. 11 Rockin’ It Local
  14. 12 Blowing the Tradition
  15. 13 Conclusions and Recommendations
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. About the Editor and Contributors