Cultivating Music in America |
Acknowledgments |
![]() | Introduction: Music Patronage As a "Female-Centered Cultural Process" |
![]() | One— Patronage—and Women—in America's Musical Life: An Overview of a Changing Scene |
![]() | Two— Women As "Keepers of Culture": Music Clubs, Community Concert Series, and Symphony Orchestras |
![]() | Three— Living with Music: Isabella Stewart Gardner |
![]() | Four— Jeannette Meyer Thurber (1850–1946): Music for a Democracy |
Five— Laura Langford and the Seidl Society: Wagner Comes to Brooklyn |
![]() | Six— A Style of Her Own: The Patronage of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge |
![]() | Seven— "As Large As She Can Make It": The Role of Black Women Activists in Music, 1880–1945 |
![]() | Eight— Women Patrons and Crusaders for Modernist Music: New York in the 1920s |
![]() | Nine— Culture, Feminism, and the Sacred: Sophie Drinker's Musical Activism |
![]() | Ten— Reflections on Art Music in America, on Stereotypes of the Woman Patron, and on Cha(lle)nges in the Present and Future |
![]() | Notes |
Contributors |
![]() | Index |