Samantha Ege

South Side Impresarios

How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Chicagoâ s South Side into a wellspring of music making.

Produktdetails

• Music in American Life
• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780252088339
• ISBN-10: 0252088336
• Artikelnr.: 70698459

Autorenporträt

Samantha Ege is an award-winning researcher and musicologist, internationally recognized concert pianist, and popular public speaker.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction    Finding Their Place in the Sun
Part I   “Colored Women Have a Genius for Leadership”
1. When and Where They Entered
2. She Proclaimed a Chicago Renaissance
3. The Black Classical Metropolis
Interlude I       Race Woman’s Guide to the Realm of Music
Interlude II      Fantasie Nègre
Part II  “They Have Worked. They Are Now Working Harder than Ever”
1. Movements of a Symphonist
2. Seizing the World Stage
Conclusion      In Honor of Mrs. Maude Roberts George
Notes
Bibliography
Index