{"product_id":"unbinding-gentility-candace-bailey-9780252043758","title":"Unbinding Gentility: Women Making Music in the Nineteenth-Century South","description":"A \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title for 2022 \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHearing southern women in the pauses of history\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Southern women of all classes, races, and walks of life practiced music during and after the Civil War. Candace L. Bailey examines the history of southern women through the lens of these musical pursuits, uncovering the ways that music's transmission, education, circulation, and repertory help us understand its meaning in the women's culture of the time. Bailey pays particular attention to the space between music as an ideal accomplishment--part of how people expected women to perform gentility--and a real practice--what women actually did. At the same time, her ethnographic reading of binder's volumes, letters and diaries, and a wealth of other archival material informs new and vital interpretations of women's place in southern culture. \u003cp\u003e A fascinating collective portrait of women's artistic and personal lives, \u003ci\u003eUnbinding Gentility\u003c\/i\u003e challenges entrenched assumptions about nineteenth century music and the experiences of the southern women who made it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Candace Bailey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252043758\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252043758\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2022","brand":"Candace Bailey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086448079103,"sku":"9780252043758","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_da4adbcb-e792-43eb-81df-4594137673f0.jpg?v=1769094730","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unbinding-gentility-candace-bailey-9780252043758","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}