Race, Gender, and Rediscovery: The Life and Works of Florence Price

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📚 Sources/further reading:
“The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price” by Rae Linda Brown (2020, University of Illinois Press)
“The Aesthetics of Florence Price: Negotiating the Dissonances of a New World Nationalism” by Samantha Hannah Oboakorevue Ege (Ph.D. thesis, University of York, 2020): etheses.whiter...
“Florence Price and the Politics of Her Existence” by Samantha Hannah Oboakorevue Ege (A Journal of Women in Music Vol. 16 Iss. 1, Spring 2018)
“The Poet and Her Songs: Analyzing the Art Songs of Florence B. Price” by Marquese Carter (DM dissertation, Jacobs School of Music, 2018): core.ac.uk/dow...
“Florence B. Price’s Compositional Style to Song Settings of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Dialect Poetry: A Performance Guide” by Daniel Joseph Hunter Jr. (DMA dissertation, UNLV, 2019): digitalscholar...
“Florence Price: An Analysis of Select Art Songs with Texts by Female Poets” by Christine Jobson (DMA essay, University of Miami, 2019): scholarship.mi...
“‘Song to the Dark Virgin’: Race and Gender in Five Art Songs by Florence B. Price” by Bethany Jo Smith (MM thesis, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, 2007)
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Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
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Music:
- Florence Price: Ethiopia’s Shadow in America, performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Daniel Blendulf [original upload: zBEJhGaGMks]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- Florence Price: The Goblin and the Mosquito, performed by Arun Garg [original upload: XRkWzJveu3c]
- Florence Price: Hold Fast to Dreams, performed by Louise Toppin [original upload: 0c1AyYTcq_w]
- Florence Price: The Oak, performed by the Women’s Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Apo Hsu [original upload: ql11_plbaTM]
- Florence Price: Mississippi Suite, performed by the the Women’s Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Apo Hsu [original upload: wfdvCrqzTm0]
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