From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music

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Introduction Historical Overview Undine Smith Moore (1904-1989) Julia Perry (1924-1979) Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) Irene Britton Smith (1907-1999) Dorothy Rudd Moore (b.1940) Valerie Capers (b.1935) Mary Watkins (b. 1939) Regina Harris Baiocchi (b. 1956)
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Appendix Selected List of Composers Selected Bibliography/Discography
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African-American women composers remain largely unknown despite their important musical contributions. Active in the United States since the late-19th century, several gained national and international recognition during their lifetimes, only to have their work neglected after their deaths. From Spirituals to Symphonies is a unique, extensively researched examination of the history and scope of musical composition by African-American women, focusing on the implications of race, gender, and class for their musical creativity, and demonstrating how this important, underappreciated category of American art was shaped by the unique individual personalities of its participants.

Their particular times, communities, families, racial heritages, economic circumstances, education, and musical training were all brought to bear on their music, and author Helen Walker-Hill challenges the assumption that black women's only important musical contributions have been in folk, jazz, and pop. With unprecedented detail, she charts the lives and the output of a group of artists whose work has gone unnoticed for too many years.

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This excellent and beautifully produced publication will immediately interest those working in music history and women's studies. It is an exemplary study of significant composers born between 1904 and 1956....This essential book will be a significant addition to general collections and to academic collections at all levels

presents an accesible, thoughtful, and humanist study of African American women composers...Public and academic libraries would do well to acquire this study

Piano scholar Walker-Hill....[p]resents am accessible, thoughtful, and humanist study of African American women composers who, for the most part, have been ignored by historians....Besides Mildred Denby Green's groundbreaking Black Women Composers: A Genisis(1983), which focuses more on the music than on the women themselves and includes musical analysis and examples, there aren't other books on this subject. Public and academic libraries, then, would do well to acquire this study

Piano scholar Walker-Hill....Ypresents am accessible, thoughtful, and humanist study of African American women composers who, for the most part, have been ignored by historians....Besides Mildred Denby Green's groundbreaking Black Women Composers: A Genisis(1983), which focuses more on the music than on the women themselves and includes musical analysis and examples, there aren't other books on this subject. Public and academic libraries, then, would do well to acquire this study

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