American composer Zenobia Powell Perry race and gender in the 20th century /

• Main Author: Pool, Jeannie G.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
• Subjects: Perry, Zenobia Powell, > 1908-2004.; African American women composers > Biography. > United States; Creek Indians > Biography.; MUSIC > Individual Composer & Musician.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.; Electronic books.
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Zenobia Powell Perry (1908-1993) was a composer whose life provides insight to a special time in the 1920s and '30s when black American composers were finally being recognized for their unique contributions to the country's music. Born in Boley, Oklahomato a black father and a black Creek...

Table of Contents:

• Zenobia Powell Perry : articulate link to American culture of the 1920s and '30s
• Song and verse in Boley : a lifetime of inspiration for an American composer
• "Lift every voice and sing" : Booker T. Washington; Boley, Oklahoma; and the political reality for Blacks
• Distinctively American : race and music
• The hidden history of Blacks and Native Americans' cultural implications
• Mentors, allies, and supporters : crucial for musical development
• Dett, Reece, and Dawson : role models for careers in Black music
• Zenobia Powell Perry : an "ambiguous" woman
• Professional teaching career and graduate school
• Becoming a composer : studies with Milhaud and Willman
• Analysis of musical style and selected works.