Cultivated by Hand: Amateur Musicians in the Early American Republic
- Author: Goodman, Glenda
Goodman's study reveals the meaningful role of amateur music making in everyday life in the early years of the republic. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals — More…
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Contents
- List of illustrations
- Note on sources
- Cast of characters
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Reproducing Music
- Laboring Bodies and Technologies of Reproduction
- What is a Manuscript Music Book?
- Manuscript, Print, and Gender
- Chapter 2: Learning Music
- Literacies
- Literacy as Piety
- Print Discipline
- Becoming Refined
- Rigorous Seminaries
- Chapter 3: Consumerism and the Materiality of Music Books
- Family Business
- Luxury Goods
- Global Trade and Raw Supplies
- Chapter 4: Economies of Accomplishments
- Pleasing Patriarchs and Self-Display
- Courtship, Marriage, and the Intimacies of Musical Exchange
- Absence and Remembrance
- Chapter 5: Appearing Tasteful
- Personal Improvement
- Cosmopolitan Aspiration, Provincial Anxiety, and the American Galant
- Being Seen
- Sensibility, Observation, and Connection
- Epilogue
- Bibliography