Charleston Belles Abroad

Zusammenfassung Examines the vital role music collections played in the lives of elite women of Charleston! South Carolina! in the years leading up to the Civil War. Candace Bailey has studied a substantial archive of music held at several southern libraries to gain a better understanding of musical culture! instruction! private performance! and cultural tourism.

Autorentext

Candace Bailey is a professor in the Music Department at North Carolina Central University in Durham. She received her master's and Ph.D. in musicology from Duke University. Her other books include Music and the Southern Belle: From Accomplished Lady to Confederate Composer and Seventeenth-Century British Keyboard Sources.

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An examination of the vital role music played in the lives of elite Southern women