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‘GIVE US MORE MUSIC’: WOMEN, MUSICAL CULTURE, AND WORK IN
WARTIME BRITAIN, 1939-1946
by
David Allen Sheridan
________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(HISTORY)
December 2007
Copyright 2007 David Allen Sheridan
Object Description
| Title | "Give us more music": women, musical culture, and work in wartime Britain, 1939-1946 |
| Author | Sheridan, David Allen |
| Author email | sheridan@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | History |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2007-08-30 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-11-23 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Levine, Philippa |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Lerner, Paul Kincaid, James |
| Abstract | This dissertation examines Britain's art musical culture within the context of the Second World War. Art music received attention and prominence through the musical work and growth of two wartime institutions -- the National Gallery lunchtime concerts and the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA). The Gallery concerts and CEMA helped provide work for musicians and also contributed to the perceived growth of art musical culture's importance to the nation-at-war. In "Give Us More Music", I argue that analyzing the work of musicians on the home front helps expain how and why cultural elites advocated that musical culture was an important segment worthy of attention. Central to my project is analyzing how women musicians benefited from the beliefs that educational and amateur musical activities fostered morale on the wartime home front.; In particular, I analyze how women's musical work proved instrumental in placing women in roles of influence seldom held prior to the wartime period. This includes an analysis of women musicians such as Myra Hess at the National Gallery and other professional musicians known as the Music Travellers. These Travellers, a group of largely women musicians employed by CEMA, served in performing and administrative roles in spreading art music to various regions of Britain during the conflict. Additionally, I discuss and compare the work of female musicians at the National Gallery with those of leisured middle and upper-class women staffing the concerts' canteen during the war.; My approach provides insights into debates about women's roles on the wartime home front and establishes that though women musicians did make inroads, these gains did not permanently alter the largely male world of arts administration and performance. My dissertation investigates also how various women negotiated their own identities, both personal and professional, as they attempted to understand how their own work contributed to the larger wartime effort. Adding to debates about women's work, gender, and national identity, I suggest music and musical culture are areas that resonated on a larger level in public discourse and discussion beyond the small numbers of Britons, particularly women, who were involved in such work during the war. |
| Keyword | British history; women; musical culture; second world war |
| Geographic subject (country) | United Kingdom |
| Coverage date | 1939/1946 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m941 |
| Rights | Sheridan, David Allen |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Sheridan-20071123 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume35/etd-Sheridan-20071123.pdf |
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| Full text | ‘GIVE US MORE MUSIC’: WOMEN, MUSICAL CULTURE, AND WORK IN WARTIME BRITAIN, 1939-1946 by David Allen Sheridan ________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (HISTORY) December 2007 Copyright 2007 David Allen Sheridan |
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