Werner's Directory of Elocutionists, Readers, Lecturers and Other Public Instructors and Entertainers

Werner's Directory of Elocutionists, Readers, Lecturers and Other Public Instructors and Entertainers

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Palala Press

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 9781355641513

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The Elocutionists

The Elocutionists

Author: Marian Wilson Kimber

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2017-01-19

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 025209915X

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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.


America's Corporal

America's Corporal

Author: James Alan Marten

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 082034320X

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The first biography of one of the Civil War's most famous disabled veterans and most prominent public figures in the Gilded Age. An examination of the dynamics of disability, the culture and politics of the Gilded Age, and the aftereffects of the Civil War.


Corporealities

Corporealities

Author: Susan Foster

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 1134808321

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A ground-breaking collection of essays that bring dance into the cultural studies mainstream, exploring the many ways we use our bodies as substantial, vital constituents of cultural reality.