Musical Activism in the American Women's Suffrage Movement, 1900-1920
Channel: Leah Branstetter
Date: 2013-11-14

by Leah Branstetter, PhD candidate in musicology, Case Western Reserve University

This is a version of the paper I presented at the 2013 meeting of the Society for American Music. It explores the role of music in the women's suffrage movement during the early twentieth century and also considers how suffragists were portrayed in popular songs of the same period.