Women's bands in America : performing music and gender /
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 tow...
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2017]
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Table of 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.
