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Author Smith, Jewel A., 1953- author.

Title Transforming women's education : liberal arts and music in female seminaries / Jewel A. Smith.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource.
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Music in American life
Music in American life.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Philosophies of women's education in the United States -- Beyond an accomplishment: A philosophy of music education -- The dawn of a new era in women's education -- Seminary structure: A comparison -- Curricula: Academic and ornamental -- Music education for a young lady -- Instrumental music at the seminaries -- Singing ladies: Vocal repertoire at the seminaries -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note Description based on print version record.
Summary Female seminaries in nineteenth-century America offered middle-class women the rare privilege of training in music and the liberal arts. A music background in particular provided the foundation for a teaching career, one of the few paths open to women. Jewel A. Smith opens the doors of four female seminaries, revealing a milieu where rigorous training focused on music as an artistic pursuit rather than a social skill. Drawing on previously untapped archives, Smith charts women's musical experiences and training as well as the curricula and instruction available to them, the repertoire they mastered, and the philosophies undergirding their education. She also examines the complex tensions between the ideals of a young democracy and a deeply gendered system of education and professional advancement. An in-depth study of female seminaries as major institutions of learning, Transforming Women's Education illuminates how musical training added to women's lives and how their artistic acumen contributed to American society.
Subject Litchfield Female Academy (Conn.)
Moravian Young Ladies' Seminary
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
Music Vale Seminary (Salem, Conn.)
Troy Female Seminary
Music in female seminaries -- United States -- History.
Female seminaries -- United States -- History.
Music -- Instruction and study -- United States -- History.
Women -- Education (Secondary) -- United States -- History.
Musique -- Étude et enseignement -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
Femmes -- Enseignement secondaire -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
Musique dans les séminaires féminins -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
Séminaires féminins -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
EDUCATION -- General.
EDUCATION / General
Women -- Education (Secondary)
Music -- Instruction and study
Music in female seminaries
Female seminaries
Music -- Social aspects
Piano music
Theology -- Study and teaching
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Indexed Term Education
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Other Form: Print version: Transforming women's education Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019] 9780252042249 (DLC) 2018051866
ISBN 9780252051074 (epub)
0252051076
9780252053238 (electronic bk.)
0252053230 (electronic bk.)
9780252042249 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252084003 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252084004
Standard No. AU@ 000065113333
AU@ 000070532933
AU@ 000074156325

 
    
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