Author: Anna Randall Diehl
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Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Elocutionary Studies and New Recitations
The Elocutionists
Author: Marian Wilson Kimber
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025209915X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson Kimber restores elocution with music to its rightful place in performance history. Gazing through the lenses of gender and genre, Wilson Kimber argues that these female artists transgressed the previous boundaries between private and public domains. Their performances advocated for female agency while also contributing to a new social construction of gender. Elocutionists, proud purveyors of wholesome entertainment, pointedly contrasted their "acceptable" feminine attributes against those of morally suspect actresses. As Wilson Kimber shows, their influence far outlived their heyday. Women, the primary composers of melodramatic compositions, did nothing less than create a tradition that helped shape the history of American music.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025209915X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson Kimber restores elocution with music to its rightful place in performance history. Gazing through the lenses of gender and genre, Wilson Kimber argues that these female artists transgressed the previous boundaries between private and public domains. Their performances advocated for female agency while also contributing to a new social construction of gender. Elocutionists, proud purveyors of wholesome entertainment, pointedly contrasted their "acceptable" feminine attributes against those of morally suspect actresses. As Wilson Kimber shows, their influence far outlived their heyday. Women, the primary composers of melodramatic compositions, did nothing less than create a tradition that helped shape the history of American music.
Werner's Directory of Elocutionists, Readers, Lecturers and Other Public Instructors and Entertainers ...
Author: Elsie M. Wilbor
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Category : Elocutionists
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Elocutionists
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
America's Recitation Book
Werner's Readings and Recitations
Werner's Readings and Recitations: Elocutionary studies (c1903)
Werner's Voice Magazine
Catalogue of the Books in the Circulating Library ...
Author: Toronto Public Libraries
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A Study in Comparative Speech Forms of Delivery with Special Reference to Interpretative Reading
Author: William Joseph Farma
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Category : Oral interpretation
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Publisher:
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Category : Oral interpretation
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: New York Free Circulating Library. Bond Street Branch
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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