Unbinding gentility women making music in the nineteenth-century South Bailey, Candace 1963- creator author. ProQuest (Firm) text bibliography Electronic books. ilu 2021 monographic eng remote 1 online resource. Introduction. "One would like to know" -- PART 1. SOCIAL DIVERSITY AMONG AMATEUR WOMEN MUSICIANS. "The circle in which you move" : Gentility, Music, and White Women ; "Colored girls under the control of colored teachers" : Gentility, Music, and Women of Color -- PART 2. REPERTORY. "Home! Sweet Home!' with brilliant variations" : Melody ; "I have no time to tell you now half the enjoyment these operas have given us" : Opera as Cultural Capital -- PART 3. SCIENTIFIC MUSIC AND PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS. "Distinguished success ... in teaching Music as a Science": Genteel Women Scientists ; "Of that ilk": Foreign Music Teachers and Genteel Pupils ; "A remarkable accomplishment for one of the gentle sex" : Other Professionals -- PART 4. THE CIVIL WAR. "The female tribe as 'angels' on earth ... is being ... entirely dissipated" : The Parlor and the Civil War ; "Many shades of caste and kind" : The Civil War and the Public Gaze -- PART 5. WOMEN MUSICIANS IN THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA. "She takes up music as a profession" : Career Women ; "Beethoven wrote it -- that is enough" : Reconstructed Women Reconstructing Repertory -- Conclusion. "This old piece of music keeps her name like a flower pressed in a book". Candace Bailey. Electronic resource. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-usu-- Women musicians Southern States History 19th century Musicians Southern States History 19th century Women Southern States History 19th century Women Southern States Social conditions 19th century Music Social aspects Southern States History 19th century Music and race Southern States History 19th century Binder's volumes (Music) Southern States History 19th century 1800-1899 fast ML82 .B27 2021 780.975082 Unbinding gentility Bailey, Candace, 1963- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021. (DLC) 2020045521 Music in American life 9780252052651 025205265X 9780252043758 9780252085741 2020045522 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action?docID=6529851 NhCcYBP 201006 20250816204059.2 in00004402596