The elocutionists: women, music, and the spoken word

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 eloc...

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1. Verfasser: Kimber, Marian Wilson 1960- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Urbana University of Illinois Press 2017
Schriftenreihe:Music in American life
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Previously issued in print: 2017
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource illustrations (black and white)
Zielpublikum:Specialized
ISBN:9780252099151
DOI:10.5406/illinois/9780252040719.001.0001

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