Women Who Dared Maud Powell and Edna White eBook Susan Fleet
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Violinist Maud Powell and trumpeter Edna White challenged the male-dominated music world. Maud was the first instrumental soloist to record for RCA Victor in 1904. Edna gave the first solo trumpet recital in Carnegie Hall in 1949. At a time when most women stayed home to raise children, they traveled the world, thrilling millions with their performances. Their personal lives were turbulent. Maud defied her mother to marry the man she loved. Edna left her first husband for an opera singer.
An authority on jazz and classical female musicians and longtime professional trumpeter, Susan Fleet has taught at Brown University and Berklee College of Music. Her entries on Antonia Brico, Hazel Scott, Carmen McRae and several others appear in Scribner's American Biography.
Women Who Dared exposes the gender-bias women faced in the 20th Century music world, and the rampant racism at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Discover how early recordings were made. See vaudeville through Edna's eyes and experience the hardship she faced during the Depression when she and her teenage son had only hard boiled eggs to eat. No matter if you're 10 or 110, this 55 page book is full of revelations you don't want to miss!
Women Who Dared Maud Powell and Edna White eBook Susan Fleet
When I was a kid I read biographies of figures I took to be American heroes, including Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, Ethan Allen, Lewis and Clark -- and had someone handed it to me, I would have naturally included Women Who Dared in that list. As Susan Fleet clearly, concisely and candidly tells their stories, Edna White and Maud Powell advanced the frontier of American culture just as the explorers, scouts, pioneers and showmen did, facing different but no less daunting challenges: authoritarian presumptions about the "proper" role of women in the world of concert music.Neither of Fleet's heroines was born to privilege and neither of them enjoyed later lives of ease, but both were successful, artistic performers, attracting and enriching broad audiences, traveling fairly widely, establishing themselves and often their collaborators, too, on the basis of their talents and determination. Both women had at least a modicum of familial encouragement and support (not unconditional, though nor the financial kind), and both were ultimately recognized for their artistic excellence by men in their fields, which helped though did not in itself allow them to achieve their ultimate accomplishments. No -- their successes came from their own efforts. And as the author describes them her own research and primary sources, both women lived lives of self-fulfillment, adapting as necessary the overall developments in U.S. society from the end of the Civil War to the start of the Clinton presidency.
I found Fleet's encapsulations of the careers of Annie Oakley, Amelia Earhart and Babe Didrikson Zaharias fleshed out what she writes about White and Powell. The 125 years covered in this brief book witnessed the self-liberation of women on several fronts, and while there's not a lot of detail about the suffrage movement, little discussion of flappers or women in the military or changes in couture, Women Who Dared provides a sense of a world in transition, moving towards a sense of gender equality which we have not completely attained even today. The descriptions of music made me long to hear what Edna White and Maud Powell played. I appreciate the visuals -- wish there were more -- and references provided. Men and women, girls and boys should know about these trailblazers, as Susan Fleet has, with neither pretense nor apology but instead proudly, portrayed them.
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Women Who Dared Maud Powell and Edna White eBook Susan Fleet Reviews
What a fascinating read! It was inspiring to learn about the brave and talented women who pursued their dreams despite the many challenges they faced. I look forward to Volume II.
I read this book in one sitting. The way Susan wrote this book brought me into the lives of these amazing trailblazing women! The extras about Annie Oakley and others was interesting as well. As a good book should, it makes me want to learn more on my own - thank you Susan!
This book was supposed to be well researched non-fiction. It wasn't well researched, and it wasn't well written, either. I would like to read about these musicians, but this book is not worth spending the time. Another author will do much better than Susan Fleet.
I enjoyed the book about reading what young women did to achieve their dreams in the 20th century. But I have a problem my book ended at Chapter 4.Yes it is on a --I can't go any further.
The chapters 1-4 was very good I would enjoying reading the rest of the book and any other books that Susan Fleet will write.
I learned a lot about these prominent, yet forgotten, women musicians. The addition of other history which happened around the same time, might have been put in a margin, as opposed to just added to each chapter.
Definitely worth a read!
Susan Fleet places each of the women in a historical timeline prior to going into a biagraphy. This really shows the reader what society, the country and the world were going through. This really does put a lot of these strong women into prospective and shines some light onto why they were so revolutionary.
Inspiring! Every woman should read this. Susan Fleet not only gives a biography of each of the women, but places each one in the historical time line so that you could see what the country and world were going through.
I didn't understand why Annie Oakley was in this book about musicians. Even though I was a fan of Annie Oakley (or what 1950s TV showed me) still it was interesting.
The other biographies were of women whose names I didn't recognize but was glad for the introduction.
As a person who listens to books on Text-to-Speech I found the reference numbers, websites and bibliographies that seem to pop out of no where, quite distracting. I just wonder if those all couldn't go to the end of the book so the stories didn't have to get interrupted.
Oh, and I liked the way the author blended these biographies across time. It helped me to place the people and what they were going through in the proper dress and social eras. Now I have more research to do.
When I was a kid I read biographies of figures I took to be American heroes, including Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill, Ethan Allen, Lewis and Clark -- and had someone handed it to me, I would have naturally included Women Who Dared in that list. As Susan Fleet clearly, concisely and candidly tells their stories, Edna White and Maud Powell advanced the frontier of American culture just as the explorers, scouts, pioneers and showmen did, facing different but no less daunting challenges authoritarian presumptions about the "proper" role of women in the world of concert music.
Neither of Fleet's heroines was born to privilege and neither of them enjoyed later lives of ease, but both were successful, artistic performers, attracting and enriching broad audiences, traveling fairly widely, establishing themselves and often their collaborators, too, on the basis of their talents and determination. Both women had at least a modicum of familial encouragement and support (not unconditional, though nor the financial kind), and both were ultimately recognized for their artistic excellence by men in their fields, which helped though did not in itself allow them to achieve their ultimate accomplishments. No -- their successes came from their own efforts. And as the author describes them her own research and primary sources, both women lived lives of self-fulfillment, adapting as necessary the overall developments in U.S. society from the end of the Civil War to the start of the Clinton presidency.
I found Fleet's encapsulations of the careers of Annie Oakley, Amelia Earhart and Babe Didrikson Zaharias fleshed out what she writes about White and Powell. The 125 years covered in this brief book witnessed the self-liberation of women on several fronts, and while there's not a lot of detail about the suffrage movement, little discussion of flappers or women in the military or changes in couture, Women Who Dared provides a sense of a world in transition, moving towards a sense of gender equality which we have not completely attained even today. The descriptions of music made me long to hear what Edna White and Maud Powell played. I appreciate the visuals -- wish there were more -- and references provided. Men and women, girls and boys should know about these trailblazers, as Susan Fleet has, with neither pretense nor apology but instead proudly, portrayed them.
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