Hull House Songs, newly republished with a critical commentary, recovers the hidden emancipatory possibilities of the Hull-House women's legacy.

Graham Cassano is an associate professor of sociology at Oakland University. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1991. He is the author of A New Kind of Public: Community, Solidarity, and Political Economy in New Deal Cinema, 1935-1948 (Brill, 2014).

Rima Lunin Schultz'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 Women Building Chicago 1790 1990: A Biographical Dictionary (Indiana University Press, 2001).

Jessica Payette 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.

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introductory Note, Jessica Payette, Graham Cassano, and Rima Lunin Schultz

Hull House Songs by Eleanor Smith (Reproduction of 1915 Folio published by Clayton F. Summy Co.)

1. Hull House Songs and the "Public", Graham Cassano and Jessica Payette

Afterword: Eleanor Smith's Hull House Songs: A Singer's Perspective, Jocelyn Zelasko

Appendix: Libretto for The Trolls' Holiday by Harriet Monroe

Bibliography

Index