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Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Elocutionist's Journal
Author: The Elocutionists
Author: Marian Wilson KimberPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025209915X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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.
Proceedings of the National Association of Elocutionists
Author: National Association of Elocutionists (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
The Elocutionist
Author: The Elocutionist
Author: James Sheridan KnowlesPublisher:
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Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Elocutionist
Author: James KnowlesPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368827707
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the National Association of Elocutionists
Author: National Association of Elocutionists (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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