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

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Samantha Ege

South Side Impresarios

How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene

Samantha Ege

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University of Illinois Press
12 November 2024

Western "classical" music; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); History of the Americas; Local history

Series: Music in American Life

Between the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life. Samantha Ege tells the stories of the Black women whose acumen and energy transformed Chicago’s South Side into a wellspring of music making.

Ege focuses on composers like Florence Price, Nora Holt, and Margaret Bonds not as anomalies but as artists within an expansive cultural flowering. Overcoming racism and sexism, Black women practitioners instilled others with the skill and passion to make classical music while Race women like Maude Roberts George, Estella Bonds, Neota McCurdy Dyett, and Beulah Mitchell Hill built and fostered institutions central to the community. Ege takes readers inside the backgrounds, social lives, and female-led networks of the participants while shining a light on the scene’s audiences, supporters, and training grounds. What emerges is a history of Black women and classical music in Chicago and the still-vital influence of the world they created.

A riveting counter to a history of silence, South Side Impresarios gives voice to an overlooked facet of the Black Chicago Renaissance.

By: Samantha Ege
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 481g
ISBN: 9780252088339
ISBN 10: 0252088336
Series: Music in American Life
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 12 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Acknowledgments Introduction Finding Their Place in the Sun Part I “Colored Women Have a Genius for Leadership” When and Where They Entered She Proclaimed a Chicago Renaissance 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” Movements of a Symphonist Seizing the World Stage Conclusion In Honor of Mrs. Maude Roberts George Notes Bibliography Index

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