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“Song to the Dark Virgin”: Race and Gender in Five Art Songs of Florence B. Price

Smith, Bethany Jo
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1186770755

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2007, M.M., University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music : Music (Musicology).
The art songs of Florence B. Price (1888-1953) reveal a tumultuous history of the threat of being black and a woman during the Negro Renaissance in Chicago. Price was one of the first black women to be recognized as a composer; however, many of her art songs remain unpublished. This thesis expands the existing scholarship on Price and her vocal repertoire, situating her works firmly within the context of the Negro Renaissance. I analyze five of her songs, “Fantasy in Purple,” “Forever,” “Night,” “The Heart of a Woman,” and “Song to the Dark Virgin,” through an aesthetic lens of race and gender studies. My interdisciplinary analysis draws upon African American aesthetics, critical studies of Negro Renaissance poetry, feminist theory, race theory, and musical analysis. Exploring these topics within Price’s art songs provides an explicit picture of her culture and the issues she faced as a black American woman during the Negro Renaissance.
Melinda Boyd (Advisor)
130 p.
Music
Florence Price; black art song; African-American art song; women composers; African-American composers; Negro Renaissance

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  • Smith, B. J. (2007). “Song to the Dark Virgin”: Race and Gender in Five Art Songs of Florence B. Price [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1186770755

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Smith, Bethany. “Song to the Dark Virgin”: Race and Gender in Five Art Songs of Florence B. Price. 2007. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1186770755.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Smith, Bethany. "“Song to the Dark Virgin”: Race and Gender in Five Art Songs of Florence B. Price." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1186770755

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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