Scattered in archives and historical societies across the United
States are hundreds of volumes of manuscript music, copied by hand
by eighteenth-century amateurs. Often overlooked, amateur music
making played a key role in the construction of gender, class,
race, and nation in the post-revolution years of the United States.
These early Americans, seeking ways to present themselves as
genteel, erudite, and pious, saw copying music by hand and
performing it in intimate social groups as a way to make
themselves-and their new nation-appear culturally sophisticated.
Following a select group of amateur musicians, Cultivated by Hand
makes the case that amateur music making was both consequential to
American culture of the eighteenth century and aligned with other
forms of self-fashioning. This interdisciplinary study explores the
social and material practices of amateur music making, analyzing
the materiality of manuscripts, tracing the lives of individual
musicians, and uncovering their musical tastes and sensibilities.
Author Glenda Goodman explores highly personal yet often denigrated
experiences of musically "accomplished" female amateurs in
particular, who grappled with finding a meaningful place in their
lives for music. Revealing the presence of these unacknowledged
subjects in music history, Cultivated by Hand reclaims the
importance of such work and presents a class of musicians whose
labors should be taken into account.
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