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Musicologist Marian Wilson Kimber has been researching women in music for over two decades. Her scholarship explores issues surrounding biography, gender, musical reception, and relationships between music and the spoken word. Her publications have centered on Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn, and women\u2019s roles in American musical life. Wilson Kimber\u2019s book The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word<\/em>\u00a0(University of Illinois Press, 2017),\u00a0was the recipient of the Society for American Music\u2019s H. Earle Johnson Publication Subvention, as well as a subvention from the American Musicological Society\u2019s 75 PAYS Endowment, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation. The book explores the leading role American women played in performances of poetic recitation with musical accompaniment, Delsarte posing, and choral speaking, and the development of spoken-word compositions by women composers for female audiences.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As half of Red Vespa with pianist Natalie Landowski, Wilson Kimber has recently been reviving the art of women\u2019s musical readings, as well as commissioning new spoken-word works. The duo has performed the comic compositions of Phyllis Fergus, Frieda Peycke, and others in Kansas City, Des Moines, Washington, DC, and as the William A. Hammond Lecture on the American Tradition for The Ohio State University.<\/p>\n Wilson Kimber\u2019s recent research considers the importance of women\u2019s musical organizations in the United States. Her article about women composers\u2019 concerts at the White House was published in the Journal of the Society for American Music <\/em>in 2018. Wilson Kimber\u2019s previous publications include the frequently cited article, \u201cThe Suppression of Fanny Mendelssohn: Rethinking Feminist Biography,\u201d published in\u00a019th-Century Music<\/em>, and a study of Fanny Hensel\u2019s remarkable piano cycle,\u00a0Das Jahr<\/em> in\u00a0The Journal of Musicological Research<\/em>. She has spoken about Hensel at conferences at Florida State University, Montana State University, the Hochschule der K\u00fcnste Berlin, and Ewha Womans University in Seoul. Wilson Kimber has presented multiple papers at meetings of the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music. Several of her publications deal with music in relation to Jane Austen, and her current project is a study of women\u2019s peace songs for Eleanor Roosevelt.<\/p>\n Wilson Kimber is Professor of Musicology at the University of Iowa, where she has taught since 2004. She was selected to give the Master Teacher Lecture at the meeting of the American Musicological Society in 2011.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Musicologist Marian Wilson Kimber has been researching women in music for over two decades. Her scholarship explores issues surrounding biography, gender, musical reception, and relationships between music and the spoken word. Her publications have centered on Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn, and women\u2019s roles in American musical life. Wilson Kimber\u2019s book The Elocutionists: Women, Music, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n