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A Correspondence with Mrs. Sacks

Author
Mullen, Leah
Published
[University Park, Pennsylvania] : Pennsylvania State University, 2022.
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1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Sekhon, Baljinder, 1980- and Schreyer Honors College
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Summary
A Correspondence with Mrs. Sacks is a work for soprano, piano, and fixed media playback. This piece is a non-linear narrative work that centers around two characters; Alice, a woman in her 20s in the 2020s, and Mrs. Sacks, a woman in her 20s from the 1920s. Alice and Mrs. Sacks interact through letters, which are heard in the fixed media (Mrs. Sacks) and performed live by a vocalist (Alice). The text of the work is a fictionalized interaction that takes inspiration from the real woman, Mrs. Sacks, whose complicated account of pregnancy was recorded in Margaret Sanger's essay, My Fight for Birth Control. This piece uses quotations and almost exclusively derives musical content from three songs with themes of women's rights from the early 1900s: I'll be no submissive wife, She's good enough to be your baby's mother and she's good enough to vote with you, and You'd better be nice to them now.
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Dissertation Note
B.Mus. Pennsylvania State University 2022.
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The full text of the dissertation is available as an Adobe Acrobat .pdf file ; Adobe Acrobat Reader required to view the file.
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