Candace Bailey, "Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South" (U Illinois Press, 2021)
Southern women of all classes, races, and walks of life practiced music during and after the Civil War. Dr. Candace Bailey examines the history of southern women through the lens of these musical pursuits, uncovering the ways that music's transmission, education, circulation, and repertory help us understand its meaning in the women's culture of the time. Bailey pays particular attention to the space between music as an ideal accomplishment\u2014part of how people expected women to perform gentility\u2014and a real practice\u2014what women actually did. At the same time, her ethnographic reading of binder\u2019s volumes, letters and diaries, and a wealth of other archival material informs new and vital interpretations of women\u2019s places in southern culture. A fascinating collective portrait of women's artistic and personal lives,\xa0Unbinding Gentility:\xa0Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-century South\xa0(University of Illinois Press, 2021)\xa0challenges entrenched assumptions about nineteenth-century music and the experiences of the southern women who made it.\nDr. Candace Bailey\xa0is professor of music at North Carolina Central University.\nEmily Ruth Allen (@emmyru91) is a PhD candidate in Musicology at Florida State University. She is currently working on a dissertation about parade musics in Mobile, Alabama\u2019s Carnival celebrations.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies