Women's Bands in America

doi:10.5771/9781442254411

Women's Bands in America

Performing Music and Gender

Published 2016

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doi.org/10.5771/9781442254411
ISBN print: 978-1-4422-5440-4
ISBN online: 978-1-4422-5441-1
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Abstract

Women's Bands in America 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.

Contributors bring together a series of disciplines in this unique work, including music education, musicology, American history, women's studies, and history of education. They also draw on numerous primary sources: diaries, film, military records, newspaper articles, oral-history interviews, personal letters, photographs, published ephemera, radio broadcasts, and recordings. Thoroughly, contributors engage in archival historical research, biography, case study, content analysis, iconographic study, oral history, and qualitative research to bring their topics to life. This ambitious collection will be of use not only to students and scholars of instrumental music education, music history and ethnomusicology, but also gender studies and American social history.

Contributions by: Vilka E. Castillo Silva, Dawn Farmer, Danelle Larson, Brian Meyers, Sarah Minette, Gayle Murchison, Jeananne Nichols, David Rickels, Joanna Ross Hersey, Sarah Schmalenberger, Amy Spears, and Sondra Wieland Howe.

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Preface
- Contents
- Preface
1–14 1 Introduction 1–14
15–50 2 Helen May Butler and Her Ladies’ Military Band 15–50
51–72 3 Town Bands, 1880–1920 51–72
73–94 4 “An Attraction of Unusual Merit” 73–94
95–126 5 All-Female School Bands 95–126
127–152 6 Legacies of Leadership 127–152
153–168 7 A Survey of All-Female Drum and Bugle Corps Featuring the Hormel Girls 153–168
169–228 8 Mary Lou Williams’s Girl Stars and the Politics of Negotiation 169–228
229–268 9 Parading Women 229–268
269–300 10 Into the Wild Blue Yonder 269–300
301–324 11 Rockin’ It Local 301–324
325–342 12 Blowing the Tradition 325–342
343–352 13 Conclusions and Recommendations 343–352
353–358 Bibliography 353–358
359–368 Index 359–368
369–373 About the Editor and Contributors 369–373

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