Rae Linda Brown: The Heart of a Woman

Cover: 9780252085109 | The Heart of a Woman | The Life and Music of Florence B. Price | Brown

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"Florence B. Price (1887-1953) was the first African American woman composer to achieve national recognition. She grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, studies at the new England Conservatory, and spent her professional career in Chicago (1927-53), where her Symphony in E Minor, premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 1933 under the direction of Frederick Stock, marks the first large-scale work by an African American woman composer (and the second work by an African American composer) to be performed by a major American orchestra. A prolific composer, she wrote more than 300 works in all genres: orchestra music (symphonies, orchestral suites, and concerti), vocal music, art songs and arrangements of spirituals, piano music (including teaching pieces), organ music, chamber music, and music for chorus. Her compositions reflect not only her cultural heritage, but also the romantic nationalist style of the period in which she was most active (beginning in the 1920s). Brown discusses Price in the context of the Harlem Renaissance and deals with issues of race, gender, and class. She draws on interviews with Price's colleagues, on music manuscripts located in major repositories of African American material and in private collections, on contemporary black newspapers and journals, on census records, and on archival materials as well as the relevant published sources. An appendix lists Price's compositions by genre"--

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Title

Contents

Foreword by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.

Acknowledgments

Sources

Introduction

Part I: Southern Roots

1. Family Ties

2. Little Rock: "The Negro Paradise"

3. The Pursuit of Education: Elementary and High School

4. The New England Conservatory of Music

5. Return to Little Rock

6. Clark University and Marriage

Part II: The "Dean" of Negro Composers of the Midwest

7. VeeJay and the Black Metropolis

8. "My Soul's Been Anchored in de Lord"

9. Black Satin Clothes at the Fair

10. Spirituals to Symphonies: A Century of Progress

11. The Symphony in E Minor

12. O Sing a New Song

13. The Piano Concerto in One Movement

14. Performing Again

15. Professional Recognition: Reconciling Gender, Class, and Race

16. The WPA Years

17. The Chicago Renaissance

18. The Symphony No. 3

19. Final Years: The Heart of a Woman

Postscript

Afterword by Carlene J. Brown

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Discography

For Further Reading

Index

Back Cover

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Genre:	Musik
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Allg. Handbücher & Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780252085109
ISBN-10:	0252085108
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Brown, Rae Linda
Redaktion:	Ramsey, Guthrie
Hersteller:	University of Illinois Press
Maße:	233 x 154 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Rae Linda Brown
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.06.2020
Gewicht:	0,57 kg

Artikel-ID: 117550249