American composer Zenobia Powell Perry : race and gender in the 20th century / Jeannie Gayle Pool.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pool, Jeannie G.
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
Subjects:	Perry, Zenobia Powell, > 1908-2004. African American women composers > Biography. Muscogee people > Biography.
Genre:	Biography.
Physical Description:	xxi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Zenobia Powell Perry : articulate link to American culture of the 1920s and '30s
Song & verse in Boley : a lifetime of inspiration for an American composer
"Lift every voice and sing" : Booker T. Washington, Boley, Oklahoma, and the political reality for Blacks
Distinctively American : race and music
The hidden history : Blacks and Native Americans' cultural implications
Mentors, allies, and supporters : crucial for musical development
Dett, Reece and Dawson : role models for careers in Black music
Zenobia Powell Perry : an "ambiguous" woman
Professional teaching career and graduate school
Becoming a composer : studies with Milhaud and Willman
Analysis of musical style and selected works.