Glenda Goodman is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania who works on the history of music in early America.
"""...Goodman's study reveals the meaningful role of amateur music making in everyday life in the early years of the republic. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals."" -- P. D. Sanders, The Ohio State University at Newark, CHOICE ""In Cultivated by Hand, Glenda Goodman foregrounds amateur musicking in the first decades of the Republic to formulate a new narrative of music history in the United States. An erudite move away from a valuation of music based on traditional European historiography, this book will unequivocally reshape the way the scholars interpret musical sources."" -- Candace Bailey, North Caroline Central University ""InÂCultivated by Hand, Glenda Goodman brilliantly illuminates the heretofore unseen world of amateur musicking in the early Republic. Reading the hand-copied music books of women and men with care and insight, Goodman opens our ears to the sounds and lived intimacies of the post-Revolutionary generation, most especially the lives of white women who wove music through their labor, leisure, and self-fashioning as raced and gendered individuals. Recuperating the amateur as a key figure in the history of early American music, Goodman's work is moving, revelatory, and shimmering with insights that draw us deeply into the world of the early United States."" -- Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, author ofÂNew World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849"