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In Her Own Hands: How Girls And Women Used The Piano To Chart Their Futures, Expand Women's Roles, And Shape Music In America, 1880–1920, Sarah F. Litvin
In Her Own Hands: How Girls And Women Used The Piano To Chart Their Futures, Expand Women's Roles, And Shape Music In America, 1880–1920, Sarah F. Litvin
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American girls and women used the parlor piano to reshape their lives between 1880 and 1920, the years when the instrument reached the height of its commercial and cultural popularity. Newspapers, memoirs, biographies, women’s magazines, personal papers, and trade publications show that female pianists engaged in public-facing piano play and work in pursuit of artistic expression, economic gain, self-actualization, social mobility, and social change. These motivations drove many to use their piano skills to play beyond the parlor, by studying in conservatory, working as classical and popular music performers and composers, founding and teaching at schools, working as department store …
Volume 09, Number 07 (July 1891), Theodore Presser
Volume 09, Number 07 (July 1891), Theodore Presser
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Diversity of Taste
Professional Versus Amateur Music Teachers: Or Low Tuition Fees and How to Raise Them
Piano-Forte Teaching
Life-Rests
Elegant Design For a Piano Cover
Minnie Hauk's Music Lesson
Education of Pianists
Careless Beginners
Committing Music to Memory
Paying the Price
Melody and Pedantry
Expression and Its Conditions
Music as a Bread Winner for Girls
Man Created Music
Volume 04, Number 03 (March 1886), Theodore Presser
Volume 04, Number 03 (March 1886), Theodore Presser
The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957
Etudes or Pieces
Thalbergian Method
Some Hints Concerning Piano Teaching
American Versus Foreign Fingering
Fingering of the Scales
Simplicity of Technic
Open Letter to the Piano-Forte Student
Technic Again
Retrospective and Prospective
Our Girls as Piano Players
Printing Music for Children
What to Teach