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Women's Bands in America : Performing Music and Gender.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (387 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442254411
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women's Bands in AmericaDDC classification:
  • 784.082/0973
LOC classification:
  • ML1311.W66 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Helen May Butler and Her Ladies' Military Band -- 3 Town Bands, 1880-1920 -- 4 "An Attraction of Unusual Merit" -- 5 All-Female School Bands -- 6 Legacies of Leadership -- 7 A Survey of All-Female Drum and Bugle Corps Featuring the Hormel Girls -- 8 Mary Lou Williams's Girl Stars and the Politics of Negotiation -- 9 Parading Women -- 10 Into the Wild Blue Yonder -- 11 Rockin' It Local -- 12 Blowing the Tradition -- 13 Conclusions and Recommendations -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors.
Summary: In the first comprehensive exploration of women's bands in American history, contributors trace women's emerging roles in town, immigrant, family, school, suffrage, military, swing, and rock bands, as well as society at large. Contributors bring together a series of disciplines in this unique work, including musicology, American history, women's studies, and history of education.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Helen May Butler and Her Ladies' Military Band -- 3 Town Bands, 1880-1920 -- 4 "An Attraction of Unusual Merit" -- 5 All-Female School Bands -- 6 Legacies of Leadership -- 7 A Survey of All-Female Drum and Bugle Corps Featuring the Hormel Girls -- 8 Mary Lou Williams's Girl Stars and the Politics of Negotiation -- 9 Parading Women -- 10 Into the Wild Blue Yonder -- 11 Rockin' It Local -- 12 Blowing the Tradition -- 13 Conclusions and Recommendations -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors.

In the first comprehensive exploration of women's bands in American history, contributors trace women's emerging roles in town, immigrant, family, school, suffrage, military, swing, and rock bands, as well as society at large. Contributors bring together a series of disciplines in this unique work, including musicology, American history, women's studies, and history of education.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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