Eleanor Smith's Hull House Songs

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

Publication date: February 25, 2020

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introductory Note, Jessica Payette, Graham Cassano, and Rima Lunin Schultz

Hull House Songs by Eleanor Smith (Reproduction of 1915 Folio published by Clayton F. Summy Co.)

1. Hull House Songs and the "Public", Graham Cassano and Jessica Payette

2. Hull House Songs and Jane Addams's Political Aesthetic, Graham Cassano

3. Eleanor Smith's Operettas for Children, Jessica Payette

4. Eleanor Smith and Her Circle: Female Patronage, Cultural Production, and Friendship at Hull-House, Rima Lunin Schultz

5. Cultural Pedagogy at Hull-House: Shaping Ethical Behavior through Performance, Rima Lunin Schultz

6. Democratizing Culture and Mediating Class: The Arts at Hull-House, 1889-1945, Rima Lunin Schultz

7. Hull-House and &'Jim Crow', Rima Lunin Schultz

Afterword: Eleanor Smith's Hull House Songs: A Singer's Perspective, Jocelyn Zelasko

Appendix: Libretto for The Trolls' Holiday by Harriet Monroe

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