| 紀錄類型: |
書目-語言資料,印刷品
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
women, music, and the spoken word |
| 作者: |
KimberMarian Wilson, 1960- |
| 出版地: |
Urbana |
| 出版者: |
University of Illinois Press; |
| 出版年: |
2017 |
| 面頁冊數: |
xvii, 324 p.ill. : 24 cm.; |
| 集叢名: |
Music in American life |
| 標題: |
Music theater - United States. - |
| 標題: |
Oral interpretation. - |
| 標題: |
Oral reading. - |
| 標題: |
Readers' theater. - |
| 標題: |
Women and literature - History - United States - 19th century. - |
| 標題: |
Women and literature - History - United States - 20th century. - |
| 標題: |
Women performance artists - United States. - |
| 標題: |
Choral speaking. - |
| 標題: |
Elocutionists - United States. - |
| 摘要註: |
"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. |
| ISBN: |
978-0-252-04071-9bound |
| ISBN: |
0-252-04071-6bound |