South Side Impressarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene Binding:Paperback A gripping page-turner from the

A gripping page-turner from the celebrated author of book club favorite The Violin Conspiracy Music professor Bern Hendricks discovers a shocking secret about the most famous American composer of all time--his music may have been stolen from a Black Jazz Age prodigy named Josephine Reed

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South Side Impressarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene Binding:Paperback A gripping page-turner from theBetween the world wars, Chicago Race women nurtured a local yet widely resonant Black classical music community entwined with Black civic life. Samantha Ege tells the stories of the Black women whose acumen and energy transformed Chicago's South Side into a wellspring of music making. Ege focuses on composers like Florence Price, Nora Holt, and Margaret Bonds not as anomalies but as artists within an expansive cultural flowering. Overcoming racism and