Women And Music In The Age Of Austen
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Author | : Linda Zionkowski |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2023-12-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1684485177 |
Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges the conventional historical categories that marginalize women’s experience from Austen’s time. Contesting the distinctions 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 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 musical flourishing, much of it animated by female hands and voices. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author | : Phyllis Weliver |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351744488 |
This title was first publushed in 2000. Phyllis Weliver investigates representations of female musicians in British novels from 1860 to 1900 with regard to changing gender roles, musical practices and scientific discourses. During this time women were portrayed in complex and nuanced ways as they played and sang in family drawing rooms. Women in the 19th century were judged on their manners, appearance, language and other accomplishments such as sewing or painting, but music stood out as an area where women were encouraged to take centre stage and demonstrate their genteel education, graceful movements and self-expression. However within the novels of the Victorian were begining to move away from portraying the musical accomplishments of middle- and upper-class women as feminine and worthwhile towards depicting musical women as truly dangerous. This book explores the reasons for this reaction and the way labels and images were constructed to show extremes of behaviour, and it looks at whether the fiction was depicting the real trends in music at the time.
Author | : Alda Beatrix Claassen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
This research tries to establish whether knowledge of music and its related areas specifically playing an instrument, singing and dancing had an influence on the social status of a young lady in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in England. Three of Jane Austen's novels (Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma) are analysed and the main female characters in each are scrutinised with regard to their differing levels of musical accomplishment. Their individual positions on the social ladder at the end of each novel are evaluated and their change in situation is discussed. The notion that young ladies had to be accomplished in certain specified areas in order to be socially acceptable was an established convention during Jane Austen's lifetime. So-called conduct books' and the general expectations of society required that all young ladies who were of a marriageable age and whose fathers could afford to have them educated had to be trained in music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages. These patrilineal and superficial demands made on young ladies apparently irked Austen to the point of ignoring them completely when she created the main female characters for her novels: none of them conformed to the prevailing social norm. Nevertheless, each of the novels ends with the main ladies having made a conquest of a gentleman who is in a socially superior position to themselves. These matches are however love and admiration driven and the lady's accomplishment (or lack thereof) had no influence on the inevitable result. Austen's novels have been the inspiration for numerous adaptations, and two visual adaptations of each of the chosen three novels are studied. Each of the films or BBC TV series emphasises specific aspects of the novels and accentuates the social sphere that the characters live in. Although there are differences between the different versions (novel, film and BBC TV series), the core of each story stays the same and the results are inevitable. Austen's supposed feministic views are pointed out in this study. Conflict of opinion exists about whether Austen's novels are examples of the patriarchal values prevalent at the time or whether they in fact question and contradict such old-fashioned ideologies. Her connection to Mary Wollstonecraft is explored and key concerns emerging from their individual works come to the fore. Ascarelli summarises the converging viewpoints of Austen and Wollstonecraft and remarks that (2004) women are rational creatures, and [Ķ], in order for women to fulfil their potential as human beings, they must learn how to think for themselves'. The latter two concepts and their implications are highlighted in the three Austen novels chosen for the study. There is general consensus that Jane Austen is one of the most famous authors in history and her six novels are her legacy. Although each of the novels is placed in a restricted milieu, the morals and values that are raised in each still resonate worldwide in our day and age.
Author | : Pierre Dubois |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2015-08-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107108500 |
This book investigates the literary representation of music in the Georgian novel against its musical, aesthetic and cultural background.
Author | : LeRoy W Smith |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 1983-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1349171840 |
Author | : Deborah Kaplan |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 142143346X |
Originally published in 1992. In an age when genteel women wrote little more than personal letters, how did Jane Austen manage to become a novelist? Was she an isolated genius who rose to fame through sheer talent? Did she draw strength from the support of her family or from women writers who went before her? In Jane Austen among Women, Deborah Kaplan argues that these explanations are either misleading or insufficient. Austen, Kaplan contends, participated actively in a women's culture that promoted female authority and achievement—a culture that not only helped her become a novelist but also influenced her fiction.
Author | : Sophie Drinker |
Publisher | : Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781558611160 |
First paperback edition of this classic, cross-cultural history of women and their relationship to music through the centuries.
Author | : Nora Stovel |
Publisher | : Gutteridge Books |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2009-04-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Bruce Stovel championed Jane Austen studies and blues music with equal measures of expertise and passion. The outpouring of affection at the celebration of Bruce's life and at a subsequent musical tribute inspired the plan for a book that would celebrate Bruce as teacher, Austen scholar, and blues aficionado. Jane Austen Sings the Blues gathers essays by established Austen scholars (Margaret Drabble, Isobel Grundy, Juliet McMaster, and Peter Sabor) and some of his exemplary students, together with blues lyrics, poetry, and memoir. The companion CD features some of Bruce's favourite blues performers (Ann Rabson, Maurice John Vaughn, Graham Guest, and many others).
Author | : Kristine Helen Burns |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781573563093 |
The 20th century heard a rich sound coming from America: women making music. Other works may be strictly biographical or cover only one type of musician. This two volume, A-to-Z encyclopedia represents the first major effort to describe the role of women in all forms of music in the United States since 1900.
Author | : Ian Gammie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |