South Side Impresarios
How Race Women Transformed Chicago's
Classical Music Scene
“Readers interested in American classical music and Black history and culture will find much to celebrate in this outstanding book.” Library Journal
“Well-researched and lovingly written, this book sheds light on a formerly hidden history." Ms. Magazine
“Samantha Ege’s South Side Impresarios reminds us that no woman is an island.” Chicago Reader
“Ege places Black women classical composers in their rightful intellectual and cultural context--the Chicago Renaissance, Black transnational modernism, and the rich musical communities which nourished and embraced their extraordinary creative genius.” Barbara D. Savage, author of Merze Tate: the Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar
“This book is riveting and elegantly written.”Sandra Jean Graham, author of Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry
Bravura
Using a "Florence Price" theme and a "Margaret Bonds" theme, composer Camila Cortina Bello brings the world of the South Side Impresarios to life with gorgeous Afrodiasporic flair.
Bravura (2023) is written in honor of Samantha Ege's book South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene.
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Forthcoming 2025
The Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price
Edited by Samantha Ege & Alexandra Kori Hill
