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Graduate Research Colloquia: Dr Samantha Ege (University of Southampton)

"She Proclaimed a Chicago Renaissance": Mapping Black Women's Classical World-Making

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15 October 2024 17:15
Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Music
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Abstract

On November 27, 1917, the celebrated African American tenor Roland Hayes gave an evening recital at the South Park Methodist Episcopal Church in Chicago's South Side neighborhood. A young Margaret Bonds watched alongside her mother, Estella, enthralled by the tenor's programming of Negro Spirituals. The city's appetite for Black concert culture so deeply moved Nora Holt, music critic for the Chicago Defender, that she immediately proclaimed a "Chicago Renaissance." Holt subsequently took decisive charge in further shaping Black classical Chicago and situated her work in a community of Black women world-makers. This talk explores the ways in which Samantha Ege maps these histories in her new book, South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene. 

Biography

Samantha Ege is an award-winning musicologist, internationally recognized concert pianist, and senior research fellow at the University of Southampton.

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