“Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music,” Digital Collections, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/collections/womens-suffrage-sheet-music

• Published in: Journal of the Society for American Music 2021, Vol.15 (1), p.136-138
• Main Author: McLemore Stewart, Bethany
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• Subjects: 20th century; Anthony, Susan B (1820-1906); Catt, Carrie Chapman; Collections; Digitization; Essays; Libraries; Lyrics; Media Reviews; Music; Personal archives; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (1815-1902); Terrell, Mary Church (1863-1954); Women; Womens rights; Womens suffrage
• ISSN: 1752-1963; 1752-1971
• DOI: 10.1017/S175219632000053X

“ Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music,” Digital Collections, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/collections/womens-suffrage-sheet-music/ Released in 2019, the Library of Congress (LOC) Music Division's “Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music” Digital Collection offers a rare and thorough assemblage of two hundred pieces of sheet music related to women's suffrage in the United States from 1838 to 1921.1 Using Danny O. Crew's Suffragist Sheet Music: An Illustrated Catalogue of Published Music Associated with the Women's Rights and Suffrage Movement in America, 1795–1921, with Complete Lyrics as a guide, the LOC Music Division has digitized sheet music that presents contrasting views of women's suffrage and provides insight into the tumultuous social climate leading up to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.2 The collection is valuable to scholars and teachers of both American music and history who are interested in providing a comprehensive picture of the suffragist movement, particularly in the centennial year of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. Before the launch of this collection, digital collections dedicated solely to suffrage music did not exist. [...]what suffrage-related music exists in physical collections is sprinkled in archives across the country. While many of these collections do include musical examples, the “Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music” collection provides a more thorough look at suffrage through a solely musical lens. [...]the “Women's Suffrage in Sheet Music” collection provides a much-needed resource in terms of its platform's accessibility and searchability.