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Emily's Songbook: Music in 1850s Albany. Ed. Mark Slobin, James Kimball, Katherine K. Preston, and Deane Root. Recent Researches in the Oral Traditions of Music, Vol. 9. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2011.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2013

David K. Hildebrand
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Book Review
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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , May 2013 , pp. 214 - 217
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Copyright © The Society for American Music 2013 

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1 Many facsimile editions of single publications and collected works have been published, but this study stands out as the first to focus on an American binder's volume of the nineteenth century. Perhaps closest to Emily's Songbook in terms of analysis is Meyer-Frazier, Petra, American Women's Roles in Domestic Music Making as Revealed in Parlor Song Collections, 1820–1870 (Ph.D. diss., University of Colorado Boulder, 1999)Google Scholar. Meyer-Frazier's substantial work addresses many of the same issues represented in Emily's Songbook.

2 The use of newspaper advertisements offers important details such as performers’ names, titles of pieces played, instruments used, and, significantly, the different ticket prices that prove that people of various socio-economic groups attended performances. The other plates in Emily's Songbook include maps, photographs, engravings, and even a portrait, all of which are quite helpful.