Cultivating Music in America: Women Patrons and Activists since 1860 - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0520083954 ISBN 13: 9780520083950

Verlag: University of California Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

LOCKE, R, P, / C, BARR, EDS,: CULTIVATING MUSIC IN AMERICA, WOMEN PATRONS AND ACTIVISTS SINCE 1860, BERKELEY, CA, 1997, xii 357 p, figuras,Encuadernacion original, Nuevo,

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This wide-ranging collection brings together leading authorities on the social history of American art music to reveal the indispensable contribution that women have made to American musical life. Some chapters discuss collective endeavors, such as music clubs, Wagnerites, supporters of "modern music" in the 1920s, and activists in African American communities, while others focus on the work of a single, strikingly individual patron such as Isabella Stewart Gardner or Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Primary sources such as private letters and autobiographies are utilized, and documentary vignettes scattered throughout the book bring to life important events and reminiscences. Among these are an interview with Betty Freeman, noted patron of avant-garde music, and advice from Mildred Bliss to Nadia Boulanger. Extensive opening and closing chapters provide conceptual and factual background on music in America and draw out the larger implications of women's patronage in the past, present, and future.

Nota de la solapa:

"The Victorian cup on my shelfa present from my motherreads 'Love the Giver.' Is it because the very word patronage implies the authority of the father that we have treated American women patrons and activists so unlovingly in the writing of our own history? This pioneering collection of superb scholarship redresses that imbalance. At the same time it brilliantly documents the interrelationship between various aspects of gender and the creation of our own culture."Judith Tick, author ofRuth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music

"Together with the fine-grained and energetic research, I like the spirit of this book, which is ambitious, bold, and generous minded.Cultivating Music in America corrects long-standing prejudices, omissions, and misunderstandings about the role of women in setting up the structures of America's musical life, and, even more far-reaching, it sheds light on the character of American musical life itself. To read this book is to be brought to a fresh understanding of what is at stake when we discuss notions such as 'elitism,' 'democratic taste,' and the political and economic implications of art."Richard Crawford, author ofThe American Musical Landscape

"We all know we are indebted to royal patronage for the music of Mozart. But who launched American talent? The answer is women, this book teaches us. Music lovers will be grateful for these ten essays, sound in scholarship, that make a strong case for the women philanthropists who ought to join Carnegie and Rockefeller as household words as sponsors of music."Karen J. Blair, author ofThe Torchbearers: Women and Their Amateur Arts Associations in America

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0520083954
• ISBN 13: 9780520083950
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 385
• Herausgeber: Locke Ralph P., Barr Cyrilla