Eleanor Smith's Hull House Songs: The Music of Protest and Hope in Jane Addams's Chicago

By Graham Cassano

In Eleanor Smith's Hull House Songs: The Music of Protest and Hope in Jane Addams's Chicago, the authors 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 authors 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.

With an afterword by Jocelyn Zelasko.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004289658
• ISBN13: 9789004289659
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"