The elocutionists : women, music, and the spoken word /

"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...

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Main Author: Wilson Kimber, Marian, 1960- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017]
Series:Music in American life.
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Call Number: PN4145 .K56 2017
 
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