BHM @ Music - Book Talk w. Dr Samantha Ege - South Side Impresarios
Schedule
Fri Oct 18 2024 at 05:00 pm to 06:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
University of Southampton Highfield Campus | Southampton, EN
About this Event
18.10.2024 – Book Talk with Dr. Samantha Ege about her new book:
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Location: Music Common Space, Bldg 28
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.
This event has been organised by Music EDI and is supported by the Centre for Music Education and Social Justice. Find out more here: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/groups/centre-for-music-education-social-justice
Registration recommended but not required.
Free Vegetarian Food and Drinks.
Where is it happening?
University of Southampton Highfield Campus, University Road, Southampton, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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