Jill M. Sullivan is associate professor of Music Education at Arizona State University and author of Bands of Sisters:U.S. Women's Military Bands during World War II (Scarecrow Press, 2011)

Sullivan expands her topic from women’s military bands, the subject of her Bands of Sisters, to virtually all band types encountered in the US: professional, town, vaudeville, school, drum and bugle corps, jazz, and rock as well as military (in the last chapter she extends the discussion to a military band in Mexico). The arrangement is mostly chronological, and the chapters span the 140 years from the late 19th century (starting with Helen May Butler’s various ensembles) to the 21st century (rock bands in the Twin Cities)…. [O]f special merit are contributions by Gayle Murchison and Jeananne Nichols. Murchison writes about the ‘intersectionality of race and gender in jazz,’ as seen through the life and recordings of Mary Lou Williams’s Girl Stars, while untangling a web of connections among members of the jazz world. Nichols details the US WAF Band history, drawing on many primary documents, interviews, and recent theory. Coauthors Dawn Farmer and David Rickels also make effective use of extensive primary sources in bringing to life the stories of pathbreaking band directors Lillian Williams Linsey and Gladys Stone Wright, who served as role models and left lasting legacies in the band world.Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionJill M. SullivanChapter 2: Helen May Butler and Her Ladies' Military Band: Being Professional during the Golden Age of BandsBrian Meyers Chapter 3: Town Bands, 1870–1920Sondra Wieland HoweChapter 4: "An Attraction of Unusual Merit," Women's Bands on the Vaudeville StageJoanna Ross HerseyChapter 5: All-Female School Bands: Separate Spheres and Gender EqualityJill M. SullivanAmy SpearsChapter 6: Legacies of Leadership: Lillian Williams Linsey and Gladys Stone WrightDawn M. FarmerDavid A. RickelsChapter 7: A Survey of All-Female Drum and Bugle Corps featuring “The Hormel Girls"Danelle D. LarsonChapter 8: Mary Lou Williams’s Girl Stars and the Politics of Negotiation: Jazz, Gender, and Jim CrowGayle MurchisonChapter 9: Parading Women: Objectification and Commodification of Women’s Military Bands during WW IIJill M. SullivanChapter 10: Into the Wild Blue Yonder: A History of the US WAF Band 1949-1961 Jeananne NicholsChapter 11: Rockin' it L

Jill M. Sullivan is associate professor of Music Education at Arizona State University and author of Bands of Sisters:U.S. Women's Military Bands during World War II (Scarecrow Press, 2011)

Sullivan expands her topic from women’s military bands, the subject of her Bands of Sisters, to virtually all band types encountered in the US: professional, town, vaudeville, school, drum and bugle corps, jazz, and rock as well as military (in the last chapter she extends the discussion to a military band in Mexico). The arrangement is mostly chronological, and the chapters span the 140 years from the late 19th century (starting with Helen May Butler’s various ensembles) to the 21st century (rock bands in the Twin Cities)…. [O]f special merit are contributions by Gayle Murchison and Jeananne Nichols. Murchison writes about the ‘intersectionality of race and gender in jazz,’ as seen through the life and recordings of Mary Lou Williams’s Girl Stars, while untangling a web of connections among members of the jazz world. Nichols details the US WAF Band history, drawing on many primary documents, interviews, and recent theory. Coauthors Dawn Farmer and David Rickels also make effective use of extensive primary sources in bringing to life the stories of pathbreaking band directors Lillian Williams Linsey and Gladys Stone Wright, who served as role models and left lasting legacies in the band world.Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionJill M. SullivanChapter 2: Helen May Butler and Her Ladies' Military Band: Being Professional during the Golden Age of BandsBrian Meyers Chapter 3: Town Bands, 1870–1920Sondra Wieland HoweChapter 4: "An Attraction of Unusual Merit," Women's Bands on the Vaudeville StageJoanna Ross HerseyChapter 5: All-Female School Bands: Separate Spheres and Gender EqualityJill M. SullivanAmy SpearsChapter 6: Legacies of Leadership: Lillian Williams Linsey and Gladys Stone WrightDawn M. FarmerDavid A. RickelsChapter 7: A Survey of All-Female Drum and Bugle Corps featuring “The Hormel Girls"Danelle D. LarsonChapter 8: Mary Lou Williams’s Girl Stars and the Politics of Negotiation: Jazz, Gender, and Jim CrowGayle MurchisonChapter 9: Parading Women: Objectification and Commodification of Women’s Military Bands during WW IIJill M. SullivanChapter 10: Into the Wild Blue Yonder: A History of the US WAF Band 1949-1961 Jeananne NicholsChapter 11: Rockin' it L

Jill M. Sullivan is associate professor of Music Education at Arizona State University and author of Bands of Sisters:U.S. Women's Military Bands during World War II (Scarecrow Press, 2011)

Sullivan expands her topic from women’s military bands, the subject of her Bands of Sisters, to virtually all band types encountered in the US: professional, town, vaudeville, school, drum and bugle corps, jazz, and rock as well as military (in the last chapter she extends the discussion to a military band in Mexico). The arrangement is mostly chronological, and the chapters span the 140 years from the late 19th century (starting with Helen May Butler’s various ensembles) to the 21st century (rock bands in the Twin Cities)…. [O]f special merit are contributions by Gayle Murchison and Jeananne Nichols. Murchison writes about the ‘intersectionality of race and gender in jazz,’ as seen through the life and recordings of Mary Lou Williams’s Girl Stars, while untangling a web of connections among members of the jazz world. Nichols details the US WAF Band history, drawing on many primary documents, interviews, and recent theory. Coauthors Dawn Farmer and David Rickels also make effective use of extensive primary sources in bringing to life the stories of pathbreaking band directors Lillian Williams Linsey and Gladys Stone Wright, who served as role models and left lasting legacies in the band world.Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.

• Chapter 1: IntroductionJill M. SullivanChapter 2: Helen May Butler and Her Ladies' Military Band: Being Professional during the Golden Age of BandsBrian Meyers Chapter 3: Town Bands, 1870–1920Sondra Wieland HoweChapter 4: "An Attraction of Unusual Merit," Women's Bands on the Vaudeville StageJoanna Ross HerseyChapter 5: All-Female School Bands: Separate Spheres and Gender EqualityJill M. SullivanAmy SpearsChapter 6: Legacies of Leadership: Lillian Williams Linsey and Gladys Stone WrightDawn M. FarmerDavid A. RickelsChapter 7: A Survey of All-Female Drum and Bugle Corps featuring “The Hormel Girls"Danelle D. LarsonChapter 8: Mary Lou Williams’s Girl Stars and the Politics of Negotiation: Jazz, Gender, and Jim CrowGayle MurchisonChapter 9: Parading Women: Objectification and Commodification of Women’s Military Bands during WW IIJill M. SullivanChapter 10: Into the Wild Blue Yonder: A History of the US WAF Band 1949-1961 Jeananne NicholsChapter 11: Rockin' it L