Research Catalog

Title

Eleanor Smith's Hull House songs : the music of protest and hope in Jane Addams's Chicago / by Graham Cassano, Rima Lunin Schultz, Jessica Payette.

Author

Cassano, Graham

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schultz, Rima Lunin, 1943-
• Payette, Jessica
• Smith, Eleanor, 1858-1942.

Description

x, 352 pages : illustrations (some color), music; 25 cm.

Summary

In Eleanor Smith's Hull House Songs: The Music of Protest and Hope in Jane Addams's Chicago, the author-editors republish Hull House Songs (1916), together with critical commentary. Hull-House Songs contains five politically engaged compositions written by the Hull-House music educator, Eleanor Smith. The commentary that accompanies the folio includes an examination of Smith's poetic sources and musical influences; a study of Jane Addams's aesthetic theories; and a complete history of the arts at Hull-House. Through this focus upon aesthetic and cultural programs at Hull-House, the author-editors identify the external, and internalized, forces of domination (class position, racial identity, patriarchal disenfranchisement) that limited the work of the Hull-House women, while also recovering the sometimes hidden emancipatory possibilities of their legacy. 0Contributors are: Graham Cassano, Jessica Payette, Rima Lunin Schultz and Jocelyn Zelasko.

Series Statement

Studies in critical social sciences ; 131

Uniform Title

Studies in critical social sciences ; 131.

Subjects

• Protest songs
• Music by women composers
• Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
• Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.)
• Protest songs > United States > History and criticism
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• United States
• Smith, Eleanor, 1858-1942 > Criticism and interpretation
• Music by women composers > United States > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-349) and index.

Contents

Introductory note / Jessica Payette and Graham Cassano and Rima Lunin Schultz -- Hull House songs by Eleanor Smith (Reproduction of 1915 Folio published by Clayton F. Summy Co.) -- 1. Hull House songs and the "public" / Graham Cassano and Jessica Payette. "A moral revolution" ; Addams, sympathy, and the 'public' ; Source to song ; Smith's music : from the "I" to the "We" ; Finding her voice -- 2. Hull House songs and Jane Addams's political aesthetic / Graham Cassano. Introduction ; The spirit of youth : against the culture industry ; The long road of woman's memory : the devil baby ; Hysteria/solidarity ; Conclusions ; Coda: On "white slavery," Black culture, and Gershwin -- 3. Eleanor Smith's operettas for children / Jessica Payette. Introduction ; The romantic German operatic tradition : Gesamtkunstwerk and Märchenoper ; The collaborative artistic networks of women in Chicago ; A Fable in flowers and The merman's bride -- 4. Eleanor Smith and her circle : female patronage, cultural production, and friendship at Hull-House / Rima Lunin Schultz. Introduction ; The biographies of Eleanor Smith and her circle ; The settlement spirit and female friendship ; The settlement idea and educational objectives ; Conclusion -- 5. Cultural pedagogy at Hull-House : shaping ethical behavior through performance / Rima Lunin Schultz. Introduction ; Cultural work and religion at Hull-House ; Hegemonic European Christian art as "ethical culture" ; The cultural work of Edith de Nancrede ; Searching for a democratic pedagogy : the evolution of the Labor Museum ; Ellen Gates Starr and the contradictions of art and labor ; Jane Addams and industrial education : contextualizing factory work and elevating craft at the Labor Museum -- 6. Democratizing culture and mediating class : the arts at Hull-House, 1889-1945 / Rima Lunin Schultz. Introduction ; The Progressive Movement (1880-1920) and Jane Addams ; Theories of art, labor, and culture and the Butler Art Gallery Experiment on Halsted Street (1891-95) ; The short career of the Butler Art Gallery (1891-1896) ; Theater as social work : theater for the people or the people's theater ; [After] Jane Addams : cultural production at Hull-House during the New Deal era's popular and cultural fronts (1934-1943) ; The revitalization of art and politics ; The Lilac Ball : integrating neighbors ; Conclusion: The Labor Museum at Hull-House revisited -- 7. Hull-House and 'Jim Crow' / Rima Lunin Schultz -- Afterword: Eleanor Smith's Hull House songs : a singer's perspective / Jocelyn Zelasko. Introduction ; Embodiment of empathy ; The sweat-shop ; The shadow child ; Land of the noonday night ; Prayer ; Suffrage song ; Conclusion -- Appendix: Libretto for The trolls' holiday by Harriet Monroe. Bibliography Index Descriptive content provided by Syndetics™, a Bowker service.

Call Number

JNE 19-105

ISBN

• 9789004289659
• 9004289658

LCCN

2018047719

OCLC

1057242131

Author

Cassano, Graham, author.

Title

Eleanor Smith's Hull House songs : the music of protest and hope in Jane Addams's Chicago / by Graham Cassano, Rima Lunin Schultz, Jessica Payette.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in critical social sciences ; 131

Studies in critical social sciences ; 131.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-349) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: OAKLAND UNIVERSITY. CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF 1916 WORK. W/ COLOR IMAGES OF ORIGINAL PUBLICATION.

Added Author

Schultz, Rima Lunin, 1943- author.

Payette, Jessica, author.

Smith, Eleanor, 1858-1942. Hull House songs.

Other Form:

Online version: Cassano, Graham, author. Eleanor Smith's Hull House songs Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004384057 (DLC) 2018048389

Research Call Number

JNE 19-105