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Women Who Dared: Maud Powell and Edna White Kindle Edition

by Susan Fleet (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.0 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
Women Who Dared exposes the gender-bias women faced in the early 20th Century. 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.
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 others appear in American Biography.
  • "Susan Fleet dares to uncover important stories about musical women." --Virginia Eskin, Concert pianist and artist in residence at Northeastern University

  • See vaudeville through Edna's eyes and the hardship she faced during the Depression when she and her teenage son had only hard boiled eggs to eat. This book is full of revelations you don't want to miss!

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  1. Print length
    84 pages
  2. Language
    English
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  4. Publication date
    October 21, 2011
  5. Reading age
    Baby - 18 years
  6. File size
    765 KB
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"Susan Fleet dares to uncover important stories about musical women. Read this important book to discover what talented women have accomplished in Music." --Virginia Eskin, Concert pianist and artist in residence at Northeastern University

"Susan Fleet is an expert on American female musicians. She spotlights the many women who deserve wider recognition in the history of jazz and classical music, women like Maud Powell and Edna White whose careers flourished during the early 20th Century." --Matt Morrell, "Jazz at WGBH", WGBH-FM, Boston

"Fleet's insightful writing, filled with contextual information and accompanied by photographic and audio documentation, makes for a compelling introduction to this long-awaited series."
-- Monique Buzzarté, trombonist and Meet-the-Composer Soloist Champion

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In 1992, I discovered Edna White, languishing in obscurity in a nursing home. Here was a woman who recorded trumpet solos for Edison Records, the woman who played the first trumpet recital in Carnegie Hall in 1949. Having been a professional trumpeter and music educator for many years, I was appalled that I had never heard about her.

A few months later while riding in my car, I turned on the radio. A fabulous big band was playing. When the music ended I was amazed to learn that all the players were women. The program, "All Women Bands of the '20s, 30's and 40's," also featured  interviews with women who had played in these bands, including trumpeters Clora Bryant and Jane Sager. This feisty pair had plenty to say about the gender bias they had encountered. Until that day I had never heard of either of them.

That rude awakening in 1992 inspired me to join other women music historians who have begun to shine a spotlight on talented female musicians of the 20th Century, women rarely mentioned in articles and books about jazz and classical musicians. When these two life-changing events occurred, I was teaching at Berklee College of Music in Boston. I set out to create a course about talented 20th century women in the jazz and classical fields.

I did extensive research on the many jazz and classical female performers of the 20th Century, and on the historical and sociological events that affected their lives and careers. As a result, my course focused on 20th Century women who made their mark in jazz or classical music in the United States. In 2007, I began featuring these talented female musicians on my website. Many people urged me to write a book about them. Women Who Dared: Trailblazing 20th Century Musicians is the result.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005YE9OWC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Music and Mayhem Press
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 21, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 765 KB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 84 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0984723508
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ Baby - 18 years
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In her travels, Susan Fleet has worn many hats: trumpeter, college professor and music historian. While teaching at Berklee College of Music in Boston, she began killing people. Fictionally, of course! In 2001 she moved to New Orleans, the setting for her award-winning crime thrillers featuring NOPD Homicide Detective Frank Renzi.

Susan still plays her trumpet every day, but spends most of her time dreaming up new ideas to terrify and enthrall her readers. See more at http://www.susanfleet.com Her other passion is promoting talented female musicians. See them here http://susanfleet.com/morewomenmusicians.htm

See her true crime books here. http://susanfleet.com/truecrimebooks.htm

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"...of them enjoyed later lives of ease, but both were successful, artistic performers, attracting and enriching broad audiences, traveling fairly widely..." Read more

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"...As a good book should, it makes me want to learn more on my own - thank you Susan!" Read more

"...I was a fan of Annie Oakley (or what 1950s TV showed me) still it was interesting...." Read more

"Definitely worth a read! Susan Fleet places each of the women in a historical timeline prior to going into a biagraphy...." Read more

"...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." Read more

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  • Julia Burtscher
    5.0 out of 5 stars Learning about amazing women!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2012
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    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!
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  • darswords
    4.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2012
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    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.
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  • Gardener
    2.0 out of 5 stars Average to Poor
    Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2013
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    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.
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  • Howard Mandel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Introducing genuine cultural heroes
    Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2012
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    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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  • Cyrus
    4.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring
    Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2013
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    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.
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  • stiglercat
    5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting women
    Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2013
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    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 Kindle--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.
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  • B Moon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating read!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2012
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    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.
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  • Judyb121
    4.0 out of 5 stars Musical "herstory"-bold female musicians who paved the way
    Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2015
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    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.
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