Werner's Directory of Elocutionists, Readers, Lecturers and Other Public Instructors and Entertainers ...
Title | Werner's Directory of Elocutionists, Readers, Lecturers and Other Public Instructors and Entertainers ... PDF eBook |
Author | Elsie M. Wilbor |
Publisher | |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 1887 |
Genre | Elocutionists |
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Elocutionary Studies and New Recitations
Title | Elocutionary Studies and New Recitations PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Randall Diehl |
Publisher | |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1887 |
Genre | Readers |
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Werner's Voice Magazine
Title | Werner's Voice Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 1887 |
Genre | Speech |
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Werner's Magazine
Title | Werner's Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 618 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Elocution |
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Werner's Magazine
Title | Werner's Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar S. Werner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1881 |
Genre | Elocution |
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The Elocutionists
Title | The Elocutionists PDF eBook |
Author | Marian Wilson Kimber |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2017-01-19 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 025209915X |
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.
The Voice
Title | The Voice PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 552 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | Elocution |
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