This article is a microhistory of music collecting in eighteenth-century America. It focuses on the life and collection of an elite white woman, Sally Brown, who gathered an amount of music that was unusual for women in the USA at that time. She was able to do so because her family had a successful mercantile business, one that included the slave trade. Sally’s experiences shed light on the gendered history of amateur music-making, which this article posits were connected to other gendered forms of domestic labour in the early American republic. By tracing how Sally acquired music, this article demonstrates the importance both of affective, personal ties and of the anonymized labour of the global trade network, which supplied her and other consumers with music-book materials. This article argues that, in ways with which musicological scholarship has yet to reckon, intimacy and labour contributed to music collecting at both individual and structural levels.

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绑定在一起：美国共和国早期音乐书籍收藏的亲密关系

这篇文章是 18 世纪美国音乐收藏的微观历史。它专注于一位精英白人女性 Sally Brown 的生活和收藏，她收集了大量当时美国女性不寻常的音乐。她之所以能够这样做，是因为她的家族拥有成功的商业生意，其中包括奴隶贸易。Sally 的经历揭示了业余音乐制作的性别化历史，本文认为这与美国共和国早期其他性别化的家务劳动形式有关。通过追溯 Sally 如何获得音乐，本文展示了情感、个人联系以及全球贸易网络的匿名劳动的重要性，该网络为她和其他消费者提供了音乐书籍材料。本文认为，