The Heart of a Woman
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08510-9 (ISBN)
The Heart of a Woman offers the first-ever biography of Florence B. Price, a composer whose career spanned both the Harlem and Chicago Renaissances, and the first African American woman to gain national recognition for her works.
Price's twenty-five years in Chicago formed the core of a working life that saw her create three hundred works in diverse genres, including symphonies and orchestral suites, art songs, vocal and choral music, and arrangements of spirituals. Through interviews and a wealth of material from public and private archives, Rae Linda Brown illuminates Price's major works while exploring the considerable depth of her achievement. Brown also traces the life of the extremely private individual from her childhood in Little Rock through her time at the New England Conservatory, her extensive teaching, and her struggles with racism, poverty, and professional jealousies. In addition, Brown provides musicians and scholars with dozens of musical examples.
Rae Linda Brown was a professor at the University of Michigan and a professor and Robert and Marjorie Rawlins Chair of the Department of Music at the University of California, Irvine. She was the author of Music, Printed and Manuscript, in the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters: An Annotated Catalog. She died in 2017. Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop and The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop.
CoverTitleCopyrightContentsForeword by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.AcknowledgmentsSourcesIntroductionPart I: Southern Roots1. Family Ties2. Little Rock: “The Negro Paradise”3. The Pursuit of Education: Elementary and High School4. The New England Conservatory of Music5. Return to Little Rock6. Clark University and MarriagePart II: The “Dean” of Negro Composers of the Midwest7. VeeJay and the Black Metropolis8. "My Soul’s Been Anchored in de Lord"9. Black Satin Clothes at the Fair10. Spirituals to Symphonies: A Century of Progress11. The Symphony in E Minor12. O Sing a New Song13. The Piano Concerto in One Movement14. Performing Again15. Professional Recognition: Reconciling Gender, Class, and Race16. The WPA Years17. The Chicago Renaissance18. The Symphony No. 319. Final Years: The Heart of a WomanPostscriptAfterword by Carlene J. BrownNotesSelected BibliographyDiscographyFor Further ReadingIndexBack Cover
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.06.2020 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Music in American Life |
| Nachwort | Carlene J. Brown |
| Vorwort | Guthrie Ramsey |
| Zusatzinfo | 18 black & white photographs, 49 music examples |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-252-08510-8 / 0252085108 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-252-08510-9 / 9780252085109 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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