Black and Classical

BLACK AND CLASSICAL
CLASSICAL MUSIC BY BLACK WOMEN COMPOSERS.

A celebration of classical music written by African American composers Florence Price, Margaret Bonds and Betty Jackson King. Price, Bonds and King were key parts of the 1930s-40s Chicago Renaissance; an African American creative movement that blossomed out of Chicago. The movement became characterized by Artists mixing western and African heritage Art forms together. This created unique expressions of music, theatre, poetry and art which empowered the black identity, community and powerfully impacted civil rights activism. Although each composer is very different to the other Price, Bonds and King all fused their classical compositions with jazz, negro spiritual, African rhythm and gospel influences