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Women's bands in America : performing music and gender
- Title
- Women's bands in America : performing music and gender / edited by Jill M. Sullivan.
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Sullivan, Jill M., 1963-
- Description
- xi, 373 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-358) and index.
- Contents
- Helen May Butler and her ladies' military band : being professional during the Golden Age of Bands / Brian D. Meyers -- Town bands, 1880-1920 / Sondra Wieland Howe -- "An attraction of unusual merit" : women's bands on the vaudeville stage / Joanna Ross Hersey -- All-female school bands : separate spheres and gender equality / Jill M. Sullivan and Amy E. Spears -- Legacies of leadership : Lillian Williams Linsey and Gladys Stone Wright / Dawn M. Farmer and David A. Rickels -- A survey of all-female drum and bugle corps featuring the Hormel Girls / Danelle D. Larson -- Mary Lou Williams's Girl Stars and the politics of negotiation : jazz, gender, and Jim Crow / Gayle Murchison -- Parading women : the commodification of women's military bands during World War II / Jill M. Sullivan -- Into the wild blue yonder : a history of the US WAF Band, 1949-1961 / Jeananne Nichols -- Rockin' it local : all-female rock bands in the Twin Cities / Sarah Schmalenberger and Sarah M. Minette -- Blowing the tradition : women performing in the Banda Sinfónica de Marina-Armada de México / Vilka Elisa Castillo Silva.
- Call Number
- JNE 17-18
- ISBN
- 9781442254404
- 1442254408
- LCCN
- 2016039733
- OCLC
- 958798167
- Title
- Women's bands in America : performing music and gender / edited by Jill M. Sullivan.
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-358) and index.
- Added Author
- Sullivan, Jill M., 1963- editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Women's bands in America Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017] 9781442254411
- Research Call Number
- JNE 17-18