| Contents |
Helen May Butler and her ladies' military band: being professional during the Golden Age of Bands / Brian D. Meyers -- Town bands, 1880-1920 / Sondra Wieland Howe -- "An attraction of unusual merit": women's bands on the vaudeville stage / Joanna Ross Hersey -- All-female school bands: separate spheres and gender equality / Jill M. Sullivan and Amy E. Spears -- Legacies of leadership: Lillian Williams Linsey and Gladys Stone Wright / Dawn M. Farmer and David A. Rickels -- A survey of all-female drum and bugle corps featuring the Hormel Girls / Danelle D. Larson -- Mary Lou Williams's Girl Stars and the politics of negotiation: jazz, gender, and Jim Crow / Gayle Murchison -- Parading women: the commodification of women's military bands during World War II / Jill M. Sullivan -- Into the wild blue yonder: a history of the US WAF Band, 1949-1961 / Jeananne Nichols -- Rockin' it local: all-female rock bands in the Twin Cities / Sarah Schmalenberger and Sarah M. Minette -- Blowing the tradition: women performing in the Banda Sinfónica de Marina-Armada de México / Vilka Elisa Castillo Silva. |
| Abstract |
This book is the first comprehensive exploration of women's bands across the three centuries in American history. Contributors trace women's emerging roles in society as seen through women's bands--concert and marching--spanning three centuries of American history. Authors explore town, immigrant,industry, family, school, suffrage, military, jazz, and rock bands, adopting a variety of methodologies and theoretical lenses in order to assemble and interrogate their findings within the context of women's roles in American society over time. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2016039733 |
| ISBN | 9781442254404 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 1442254408 hardcover alkaline paper |
