South Side Impresarios - How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Samantha Ege
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2024
• EAN: 9780252088339
• ISBN: 978-0-252-08833-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Music in American Life
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music