I've been postponing posting to the blog for over a month. I had hoped my next post would be the link to the electronic copy of my document. But alas, things in the graduate school are as tedious as ever. I also haven't been doing an awful lot of studying, writing, reading, or scholarship to report. There's been painting, moving, and trying to learn to relax instead.
But now I have returned to this website. To tell of the latest project and changes to my scholarly lifestyle. Instead of beginning work full time on a phd come August, I will begin work full time, at a job at an archive, and work part time on the next degree. Besides hopefully allowing me to have a semi-normal life in an 8-5 time frame, I think this will allow me to write more. I plan on using this blog to report latest finds at my job, in my dissertation hunt, and the first writing-for-publication project I plan to undertake. Before moving full force into possible dissertation themes entirely, I want to write one article that branches off from my thesis. One rabbit hole that I didn't completely go down. One avenue that I can't stop thinking about.
Where to begin with this. I have a title, as the title of this post alludes. Other than that, I have keywords that I now list below. This is where I will start, and I'll see where it takes me.
piano girl
propriety
creation versus emulation
old versus new
changing gender perceptions
James Huneker and Old Fogy
The Etude
performance roles and performing roles
salon versus classical music
accomplishment
the piano in the home
The keywords make it seem very similar to the thesis and archetyping, but I'm hoping it goes in a somewhat different direction, more focused upon Huneker and the expectations of women in American musical society, especially dealing with performing music (where, what, and how). And so now I begin. Step 1: get to the root of Huneker- where did he get these ideas and did others have them....
More to come.
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