Heavenly Highway Hymns: Shaped-Note Hymnal

Samantha Ege (Author)

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

1,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.

James Crooks (Author)

Bach's Architecture of Gratitude: On the Genius of the Mass in B Minor

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy - certain that what they ar

Daniel K. L. Chua (Author)

Music and Joy: Lessons on the Good Life

From Confucius to Saint Augustine and Beethoven to the blues, a rediscovery of the joy that is mu