Week 3: Ethel Smyth, U.S., and British Suffrage music and the Harlem and Chicago Black Renaissances

7.19.23

Ethel Smyth, U.S., and British Suffrage music

Listen and examine scores:

  • March of the Women (1911)
  • 3 Songs (1913)

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Smyth_March-of-the-Women-1Download

One-Penny-MarchDownload

Read:

Wood_Performing-Rights-A-Sonography-of-Womens-Suffrage-Download
Lumsden_The-Music-Between-Us-Ethel-Smyth-Emmeline-Pankhurst-and-PossessionDownload

Music of the Harlem Renaissance and Chicago Black Renaissance: Ma Rainey, Gladys Bentley, Nora Holt, and Florence Price

Listen:

Gertrude “Ma” Rainey: “Prove it On Me Blues”

Gladys Bentley

Nora Holt: Negro Dance

Florence Price

Read:

Ege_Florence-Price-and-the-Politics-of-Her-Existence-Download
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7.21.23  (assignment 5 due via Blackboard alongside weekly Discussion Board post)

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