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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    30 November 2023
    30 November 2023
    ISBN:
    9781009053792
    9781316511763
    9781009054577
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009053792
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.375kg, 190 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.249kg, 190 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Area Studies, Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, American Studies, Music, Music: General Interest, Music Criticism
    Series:
    New Cambridge Music Handbooks
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music, American Studies, Music, Music: General Interest, Music Criticism
    Series:
    New Cambridge Music Handbooks
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    In her lifetime, African American composer Margaret Bonds was classical music's most intrepid social-justice activist. Furthermore, her Montgomery Variations (1964) and setting of W.E.B. Du Bois's iconic Civil Rights Credo (1965-67) were the musical summits of her activism. These works fell into obscurity after Bonds's death, but were recovered and published in 2020. Since widely performed, they are finally gaining a recognition long denied. This incisive book situates The Montgomery Variations and Credo in their political and biographical contexts, providing an interdisciplinary exploration that brings notables including Harry Burleigh, W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abbie Mitchell, Ned Rorem, and – especially – Langston Hughes into the works' collective ambit. The resulting brief, but instructive, appraisal introduces readers to two masterworks whose recovery is a modern musical milestone – and reveals their message to be one that, though born in the mid-twentieth century, speaks directly to our own time.

    Awards

    Winner, 2024 Pauline Alderman Book Prize, International Alliance for Women in Music

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