<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><em>Hull House Songs</em>, newly republished with a critical commentary, recovers the hidden emancipatory possibilities of the Hull-House women's legacy. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In <em>Eleanor Smith's </em>Hull House Songs: <em> The Music of Protest and Hope in Jane Addams's Chicago</em>, the authors re-publish <em>Hull House Songs </em>(1916), together with critical commentary. <em>Hull-House Songs</em> contains five politically engaged compositions written by the Hull-House music educator, Eleanor Smith. The commentary that accompanies the folio includes an examination of Smith's poetic sources and musical influences; a study of Jane Addams's aesthetic theories; and a complete history of the arts at Hull-House. Through this focus upon aesthetic and cultural programs at Hull-House, the author-editors identify the external, and internalized, forces of domination (class position, racial identity, patriarchal disenfranchisement) that limited the work of the Hull-House women, while also recovering the sometimes hidden emancipatory possibilities of their legacy.</p><p>With an afterword by Jocelyn Zelasko.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Graham Cassano</strong> is an associate professor of sociology at Oakland University. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1991. He is the author of <em>A New Kind of Public: Community, Solidarity, and Political Economy in New Deal Cinema, 1935-1948</em> (Brill, 2014). </p><p><strong>Rima Lunin Schultz</strong>'s website, Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods 1889-1963 interprets the history of Jane Addams's settlement house. Formerly assistant director at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, she is the editor, with Adele Hast, of <em>Women Building Chicago 1790 1990: A Biographical Dictionary</em> (Indiana University Press, 2001). </p><p><strong>Jessica Payette</strong> is an associate professor of musicology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in musicology and humanities from Stanford University in 2008. Her publications focus on fin-de-siècle Vienna and twentieth-century opera and ballet.</p>