Contributor
Zionkowski, Linda, editor.
ImprintLewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2024]
Descriptionxiii, 298 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction. "It was all in harmony" : Musical Women in Austen's Culture / Linda Zionkowski with Miriam F. Hart -- Part I. Representing the Female Performer. A Musical Room of Her Own : Musical Spaces in Jane Austen's Novels / Pierre Dubois ; "Prima la musica" : Gentry Daughters at Play in Town, Country, and Continent, 1815-1825 / Kelly M. McDonald ; Stage Fright : Female Musicians Crossing Musical Borders in Thicknesse's The School for Fashion and Burney's The Wanderer / Danielle Grover -- Part II. Women and the Market in Music. Women on the Title Page : Celebrity Endorsement of Musical Scores / Penelope Cave ; The Lady's Choice : Women and the Purchase of Music through Subscription / Simon D. I. Fleming ; Female Musical Entrepreneurship in the Eighteenth Century / Alison C. DeSimone -- Part III. Women as Critics and Fans. Women as Quiet Critics / Jane Girdham ; Femininity and Foreignness in George Colman's Farce, The Musical Lady / Leslie Ritchie ; Georgian Fangirls : Women and Castrati in Eighteenth-Century London / Jeffrey A. Nigro -- Part IV. Women and the Bardic Tradition. Anna Gordon and the Ballad Collectors / Ruth Perry ; Antiquaries, Female Harpists, and the Survival of the Bardic Tradition / Devon R. Nelson -- Part V. Revisiting the Age of Austen. "That Ecstatic Delight" : Gender and Performance in Adaptations of Sense and Sensibility / Gayle Magee ; "Here's harmony!" : Music and Gender in Kirke Mechem's Pride & Prejudice (2019) and Jonathan Dove's Mansfield Park (2011) / Juliette Wells.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-276) and index.
Note:"Highlighting women's central role in the performance, composition, reception, and representation of music, Women and Music in the Age of Austen analyzes their formative and lasting effect upon Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from the fields of musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges the categories that populate conventional histories of Austen's time and marginalize the experience of women: dismantling the divisions between professional and amateur musicians, public and domestic sites of musical production, and performers and composers of music, the contributors reveal how women's widespread involvement in the Georgian musical scene allowed for their self-expression, artistic influence, and access to communities that transcended the boundaries of gender, class, and nationality. This volume's breadth of focus advances our understanding of a period that witnessed a flourishing of music, much of it brought to life by female hands and voices."-- Provided by publisher.
