In Women's Bands in America: Performing Music and Gender, contributors trace women's emerging roles in society as seen through women's bands spanning three centuries of American history. Authors explore town, immigrant, family, school, suffrage, military, swing, and rock bands, adopting a variety of methodologies and theoretical lenses in order to assemble and integrate their findings within the context of women's roles in American society over time. This survey uncovers new areas of research in the history of women's bands. Previous book-length works on this subject represent only the tip of...
In Women's Bands in America: Performing Music and Gender, contributors trace women's emerging roles in society as seen through women's bands spanning ...