South Side Impresarios

How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene

Samantha Ege (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2024
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-04626-1 (ISBN)

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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 an expansive cultural flowering. Overcoming racism and sexism, Black women practitioners instilled others with the skill and passion to make classical music while Race women like Maude Roberts George, Estella Bonds, Neota McCurdy Dyett, and Beulah Mitchell Hill built and fostered institutions central to the community. Ege takes readers inside the backgrounds, social lives, and female-led networks of the participants while shining a light on the scene’s audiences, supporters, and training grounds. What emerges is a history of Black women and classical music in Chicago and the still-vital influence of the world they created.

A riveting counter to a history of silence, South Side Impresarios gives voice to an overlooked facet of the Black Chicago Renaissance.

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

Acknowledgments

Introduction    Finding Their Place in the Sun

Part I   “Colored Women Have a Genius for Leadership”

When and Where They Entered
She Proclaimed a Chicago Renaissance
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”

Movements of a Symphonist
Seizing the World Stage

Conclusion      In Honor of Mrs. Maude Roberts George

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Music in American Life
Zusatzinfo	34 black & white photographs, 7 music examples
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-252-04626-9 / 0252046269
ISBN-13	978-0-252-04626-1 / 9780252046261
Zustand	Neuware