L'autore:
Ralph P. Locke is Professor of Musicology at the Eastman School of Music. His publications includeMusic, Musicians, and the Saint-Simonians (1986). Cyrilla Barr is Professor of Musicology at The Catholic University of America. Her work appears in numerous collections, and she is presently at work on a biography of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge.
Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:
"The Victorian cup on my shelfa present from my motherreads 'Love the Giver.' Is it because the very word patronage implies the authority of the father that we have treated American women patrons and activists so unlovingly in the writing of our own history? This pioneering collection of superb scholarship redresses that imbalance. At the same time it brilliantly documents the interrelationship between various aspects of gender and the creation of our own culture."Judith Tick, author ofRuth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music
"Together with the fine-grained and energetic research, I like the spirit of this book, which is ambitious, bold, and generous minded.Cultivating Music in America corrects long-standing prejudices, omissions, and misunderstandings about the role of women in setting up the structures of America's musical life, and, even more far-reaching, it sheds light on the character of American musical life itself. To read this book is to be brought to a fresh understanding of what is at stake when we discuss notions such as 'elitism,' 'democratic taste,' and the political and economic implications of art."Richard Crawford, author ofThe American Musical Landscape
"We all know we are indebted to royal patronage for the music of Mozart. But who launched American talent? The answer is women, this book teaches us. Music lovers will be grateful for these ten essays, sound in scholarship, that make a strong case for the women philanthropists who ought to join Carnegie and Rockefeller as household words as sponsors of music."Karen J. Blair, author ofThe Torchbearers: Women and Their Amateur Arts Associations in America
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