100 Years of Classical Music on the South Plains

For recent publications highlighting this history:

• "Celebrating 100 Years of Classical Music on the South Plains: An Exhibit Highlighting Women Archiving their own Histories," Southwestern Archivist 47, no. 1 (February 2024): 5, 17. 
• "Celebrating the Centennial of the Lubbock Music Club," in Lubbock's Senior Link Magazine Winter 2023, 60-61.
• Caprock Chronicles: "The Lubbock Music Club Turns 100, Part 1," in the Lubbock Avalanche Journal, November 26, 2023. 
• Caprock Chronicles: "The Lubbock Music Club Turns 100, Part 2," in the Lubbock Avalanche Journal, December 3, 2023.
• Caprock Chonicles: "Mary Dunn and the Foundational Work of the South Plains Music Teachers Association," in the Lubbock Avalanche Journal, March 31, 2024.
• "The Lubbock Music Club: Celebrating a Century of Music Work on the South Plains of Texas," Music Clubs Magazine Vol 103, no. 2 (Winter 2023): 16-17. 

For more information on early twentieth century music clubs generally:

• Blair, Karen J. The Clubwoman as Feminist: True Womanhood Redefined, 1868-1914.  New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc. 1980. 
• Blair, Karen J. The Torchbearers: Women and Their Amateur Arts Associations in America,  1890-1930. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. 
• Gere, Ann Ruggles. Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women’s  Clubs, 1880-1920. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997. 
• Martin, Theodora Penny. The Sound of Our Own Voices: Women’s Study Clubs 1860- 1910. Boston: Beacon Press, 1987. 
• Stroman, Elissa. Prescribing, Inscribing, and Negotiating Gilded Age Musical Femininity. PhD Dissertation, Texas Tech University, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/2346/89066
• Ward, Lucile Parish. A Musical Legacy of 100 Years: A History of the National  Federation of Music Clubs. Greenville, SC: A Press, 1995. 

Select processed collections within the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library that were utilized in the formation of this exhibit: 

• Francis Christmann
• Mary Dunn Papers Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
• Lubbock Music Club Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3
• Nancy May Stephens McKee 
• Jeanette Ramsey Olive
• South Plains Music Teachers Association

For oral history interviews discussing music organizations, see: http://oralhistory.swco.ttu.edu/index.php?title=Category:Music_clubs