Research Catalog

Title

Transforming women's education : liberal arts and music in female seminaries / Jewel A. Smith.

Author

Smith, Jewel A., 1953-

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]

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Details

Description

xiii, 266 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm

Summary

Jewel A. Smith opens the doors of four female seminaries, revealing a milieu where rigorous training focused on music as an artistic pursuit rather than a social skill. Drawing on previously untapped archives, Smith charts women's musical experiences and training as well as the curricula and instruction available to them, the repertoire they mastered, and the philosophies undergirding their education. She also examines the complex tensions between the ideals of a young democracy and a deeply gendered system of education and professional advancement.An in-depth study of female seminaries as major institutions of learning, Transforming Women's Education illuminates how musical training added to women's lives and how their artistic acumen contributed to American society.

Series Statement

Music in American life

Uniform Title

Music in American life.

Subject

• Börngen, ..
• Litchfield Female Academy (Conn.)
• Moravian Young Ladies' Seminary
• Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
• Music Vale Seminary (Salem, Conn.)
• Troy Female Seminary
• Evangelisches Schullehrer-Seminar
• 1800-1899
• Music in female seminaries > United States > History
• Female seminaries > United States > History
• Music > Instruction and study > History. > United States
• Women > Education (Secondary) > History. > United States
• Women > Education (Secondary)
• Music > Instruction and study
• Music in female seminaries
• Female seminaries
• Music > Social aspects
• Piano music
• Theology > Study and teaching
• Women > Education (Higher)
• Geschlechterrolle
• Musikerziehung
• Soziale Funktion
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Philosophies of women's education in the United States -- Beyond an accomplishment: A philosophy of music education -- The dawn of a new era in women's education -- Seminary structure: A comparison -- Curricula: Academic and ornamental -- Music education for a young lady -- Instrumental music at the seminaries -- Singing ladies: Vocal repertoire at the seminaries -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9780252042249
• 0252042247
• 9780252084003
• 0252084004
• 9780252051074 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018051866

OCLC

• on1031338197
• 1031338197
• SCSB-9317425

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library