The heart of a woman : the life and music of Florence B. Price / / Rae Linda Brown ; edited and with a foreword by Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. ; afterword by Carlene J. Brown.

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"Florence B. Price (1887-1953) was the first African American woman composer to achieve national recognition. She grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, studies at the new England Conservatory, and spent her professional career in Chicago (1927-53), where her Symphony in E Minor, premiered by the Chicago...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Rae Linda, 1953-2017 (Author)
Other Authors: Ramsey, Guthrie P. (Editor, writer of foreword.)
Brown, Carlene J., 1958- (writer of afterword.)
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
Series:Music in American life.
Subjects:
Price, Florence, > 1887-1953.
African American women composers > Biography.
African American composers > Biography.
Women composers > Biography.
Composers > Biography.
African American composers.
African American women composers.
Composers.
Women composers.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:xxiii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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