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  • Unbinding Gentility

    Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South

    Series Libro 1 - Music in American Life
    A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2022Hearing southern women in the pauses of historySouthern women of all classes, races, and walks of life practiced music during and after the Civil War. Candace L. Bailey examines the history of southern women through the lens of these musical pursuits, uncovering the ways that music's transmission, education, circulation, and repertory help us understand ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Charleston Belles Abroad

    The Music Collections of Harriett Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord

    An examination of the influential role music played in the lives of elite southern women during the antebellum periodIn Charleston Belles Abroad, Candace Bailey examines the vital role music collections played in the lives of elite women of Charleston, South Carolina, in the years leading up to the Civil War.Bailey has studied a substantial archive of music held at several southern libraries, ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Boundaries

    Rethinking Music Circulation in Early Modern England

    Series series Music and the Early Modern Imagination
    English music studies often apply rigid classifications to musical materials, their uses, their consumers, and performers. The contributors to this volume argue that some performers and manuscripts from the early modern era defy conventional categorization as "amateur" or "professional," "native" or "foreign." These leading scholars explore the circulation of music and performers in early modern ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Invisible Strings

    113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift

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    An anthology of brand-new poems inspired by Taylor Swift songs, from a powerhouse group of contemporary poets, including Kate Baer, Maggie Smith, and Joy Harjo.Let the decoding begin!With a record-breaking four Grammy awards for Album of the Year, Taylor Swift stands alone in the world of pop music. One of the most talented lyricists of all time, her music captivates millions of fans throughout ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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    What We Sacrifice for Magic

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    Narrado por Sara Van Beckum ...

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    9 hora 58 minutos

    It's 1968, and the Watry-Ridder family is feared and respected in equal measure. The local farmers seek out their water charms, and the teenagers, their love spells. The family's charms and spells, passed down through generations of witches descending from the Black Forest, have long served the small town of Friedrich, Minnesota.Eldest daughter Elisabeth has just graduated high school—she is ... Leer más

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  • But Some of Us Are Brave

    Black Women's Studies

    Published in 1982, But Some of Us Are Brave was the first-ever Black women's studies reader and a foundational text of contemporary feminism.Featuring writing from eminent scholars, activists, teachers, and writers, such as the Combahee River Collective and Alice Walker, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Bravechallenges the absence of Black feminist thought in ... Leer más

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  • My Old Kentucky Home

    The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song

    de Emily Bingham ...
    "The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home." So begins an American standard, first published as a minstrel song, that became dear to the hearts of millions and ultimately was enshrined as the Kentucky Derby's sonic centerpiece—a popular selling point for Kentucky tourism. Emily Bingham's masterful decoding of Stephen Foster's 1853 ballad reveals that the song was always about slavery and how ... Leer más

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  • Mr. Jefferson's Women

    de Jon Kukla ...
    From the acclaimed author of A Wilderness So Immense comes a pioneering study of Thomas Jefferson's relationships with women, both personal and political.The author of the Declaration of Independence, who wrote the words “all men are created equal,” was surprisingly uncomfortable with woman. In eight chapters, Kukla examines the evidence for the founding father's youthful misogyny, beginning with ... Leer más

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  • Within the Plantation Household

    Black and White Women of the Old South

    Series series Gender and American Culture
    Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women’s experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • An Unrecognized Contribution

    Women and Their Work in 19th-Century Toronto

    A treasure trove of incredible lives lived.— RICK MERCER, comedian and authorMuir sets out to restore the faces of women who worked and struggled in nineteenth-century Toronto. A fascinating read.— WARREN CLEMENTS, author and publisherEmphasizes the enormously influential role women had in laying the groundwork for life in the city today.— DR. ROSE A. DYSON, author of Mind Abuse: Media Violence ... Leer más

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  • The Afterlife of "Little Women"

    **"Superb, scrupulously researched . . . a comprehensive narrative for understanding the changing reception of Little Women." —Gregory Eiselein, coeditor of The Louisa May Alcott EncyclopediaThe hit Broadway show of 1912. The lost film of 1919. Katharine Hepburn, as Jo, sliding down a banister in George Cukor's 1933 movie. Mark English's shimmering 1967 illustrations. Jo—this time played by Sutton ... Leer más

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  • Unsung: A History of Women in American Music

    This updates and expanded edition of the classic text in the field describes hundreds of women musicians -- composers, instrumentalists, orchestra and opera managers, music educators, and music patrons, and their activity from the 18th to 21st centuries. It includes their most important compositions and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and Gravemeyer Award. It also includes descriptions of ... Leer más

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