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Book Prize Winner of the International Alliance for Women in Music of the 2022 Pauline Alderman Awards for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music
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.
Format | Häftad |
Omfång | 336 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | University of Illinois Press |
Utgivningsdatum | 2020-06-04 |
ISBN | 9780252085109 |
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- Häftad, 336, Engelska, University of Illinois Press, 2020-06-04, 9780252085109
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Böcker
- Format Häftad
- Antal sidor 336
- Språk Engelska
- Förlag University of Illinois Press
- Utgivningsdatum 2020-06-04
- ISBN 9780252085109