From spirituals to symphonies : African-American women composers and their music /

From spirituals to symphonies : African-American women composers and their music / Helen Walker-Hill.

"Helen Walker-Hill's unique study provides a carefully researched examination of the history and scope of musical composition by African-American women composers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploding the assumption that black women's only important musical contributio...

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Main Author: Walker-Hill, Helen.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana [Ill.] : University of Illinois Press, 2007.
Edition:First Illinois paperback.
Subjects:
Composers > United States > Biography.
Music by African American women composers > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Historical overview
  • 2. Undine Smith Moore (1904-89)
  • 3. Julia Perry (1924-79)
  • 4. Margaret Bonds (1913-72)
  • 5. Irene Britton Smith (1907-99)
  • 6. Dorothy Rudd Moore (b. 1940)
  • 7. Valerie Capers (b. 1935)
  • 8. Mary Watkins (b. 1939)
  • 9. Regina Harris Baiocchi (b. 1956)
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix. Selected list of composers
  • Selected bibliography/discography
  • Index.

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