Margaret Bonds: The Montgomery Variations and Du Bois Credo
Part of New Cambridge Music Handbooks
- Author: John Michael Cooper, Southwestern University, Texas
- Date Published: November 2023
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009054577
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In her lifetime, African American composer Margaret Bonds was classical music's most intrepid social-justice activist. Furthermore, her Montgomery Variations (1964) and setting of W.E.B. Du Bois's iconic Civil Rights Credo (1965-67) were the musical summits of her activism. These works fell into obscurity after Bonds's death, but were recovered and published in 2020. Since widely performed, they are finally gaining a recognition long denied. This incisive book situates The Montgomery Variations and Credo in their political and biographical contexts, providing an interdisciplinary exploration that brings notables including Harry Burleigh, W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., Abbie Mitchell, Ned Rorem, and – especially – Langston Hughes into the works' collective ambit. The resulting brief, but instructive, appraisal introduces readers to two masterworks whose recovery is a modern musical milestone – and reveals their message to be one that, though born in the mid-twentieth century, speaks directly to our own time.
Read more- First-ever book-length treatment of the life and work of Margaret Bonds: one of twentieth-century classical music's most brilliant and intrepid champions of social justice and global equality
- Details how central events of the Civil Rights movement from the Montgomery Bus Boycott through the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 inspired The Montgomery Variations
- Explores the societal events and issues that inspired W.E.B. Du Bois's Credo and those that led Margaret Bonds to set that iconic text to music
- Explains the connections between The Montgomery Variations, Credo, and the racial-justice movements of the twentieth century in language thoroughly accessible to non-specialist readers
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- Date Published: November 2023
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009054577
- length: 180 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 140 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.249kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Margaret Bonds's societal mission and the Montgomery variations
2. Hope, divine benevolence, and the Montgomery variations
3. The text and music of the credo
4. Interpreting the credo in context.
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