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  • South Side Impresarios

    How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene

    by Samantha Ege ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    Between the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life. Samantha Ege tells the stories of the Black women whose acumen and energy transformed Chicago’s South Side into a wellspring of music making.Ege focuses on composers like Florence Price, Nora Holt, and Margaret Bonds not as anomalies but as artists within ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price

    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Active in Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century, Florence B. Price was an African American composer, pianist, organist and music teacher, and a central figure in the first generation of Black composers of art music in the US. Price's aesthetic engaged with Black music of the enslavement period, and her gendered racial identity deserves careful consideration, while her geography ... Read more

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  • But Some of Us Are Brave

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    Published in 1982, But Some of Us Are Brave was the first-ever Black women's studies reader and a foundational text of contemporary feminism.Featuring writing from eminent scholars, activists, teachers, and writers, such as the Combahee River Collective and Alice Walker, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Bravechallenges the absence of Black feminist thought in ... Read more

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  • Segregating Sound

    Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow

    Series series Refiguring American Music
    In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how southern music—a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice—was reduced to a series of distinct ... Read more

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