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Beyond Jerusalem: Music in the Women's Institute, 1919-1969 (Paperback)
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Beyond Jerusalem: Music in the Women's Institute, 1919-1969 (Paperback)
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Music in the Women's Institute has become stereotyped by the
ritualistic singing of Jerusalem at monthly meetings. Indeed,
Jerusalem has had an important role within the organization, and
provides a valuable means within which to assess the organization's
relationship with women's suffrage and the importance of rurality
in the Women's Institute's identity. However, this book looks
beyond Jerusalem by examining the full range of music making within
the organization and locates its significance within a wider
historical-cultural context. The Institute's promotion of
conducting - a regular part of its musical activity since the 1930s
- is discussed within the context of embodying overtly feminist
sentiments. Lorna Gibson concludes that a redefinition of the term
'feminism' is needed and the concept of 'gendered spheres' of
conducting provides a useful means of understanding the Institute's
policy. The organization's promotion of folk song is also examined
and reveals the Institute's contribution to the Folk Revival, as
well as providing a valuable context within which to understand the
National Federation's first music commission, Ralph Vaughan
Williams's Folk Songs of the Four Seasons (1950). This work, and
the Institute's second commission, Malcolm Williamson's The
Brilliant and the Dark (1969), are examined with the context of the
organization's music policy. In addition to discussing the
background to the works, issues of critical reception are
addressed. The book concludes with an Epilogue about the National
Society Choir (later known as the Avalon Singers), which tested the
organization's commitment to amateur music making. The book is the
result of meticulous work undertaken in the archives of the
National Federation, the BBC Written Archives Centre, the V&A
archives, the Britten-Pears Library, the Ralph Vaughan Williams
Library, the Women's Library and the Newspaper Library.
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