African-American women composers and their music
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Walker-Hill, Helen
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 2007
- Thesaurus
- componisten, muziek, zwarte vrouwen, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, biografische gegevens
- Description
- This book provides an examination of the history and scope of musical composition by African-American women composers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It gives attention to the musical, political and social context in which the music was composed. With individual chapters on Undine Smith Moore (1904-89), Julia Perry (1924-79), Margaret Bonds (1913-1972), Irene Britton Smith (1907-99), Dorothy Rudd Moore (b. 1940), Valerie Capers (b. 1935), Mary Watkins (b. 1939), and Regina Harris Baiocchi (b. 1956)