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Margaret Bonds
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Composer, pianist, teacher, and social-justice activist Margaret Bonds (1913–72) fought against racism, sexism, and economic injustice throughout her career, amassing a portfolio of social-justice compositions unrivaled in eloquence and originality and challenging long-standing barriers between Black and White, male and female, popular and classical. But most of her more than four hundred compositions have remained unknown and her life and work have been consistently viewed through the lens of specious racist and sexist biographical tropes that ultimately have little to do with Bonds as her own world knew her. This book draws on an unprecedented mass of biographical, musical, and other documentary archival evidence to offer a fresh portrait of Margaret Bonds that not only brings to light the numerous groundbreaking activities that led to her success in her lifetime but also reveals her to have been an activist and creative achiever whose work is as much of our time as it was of her own.
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Abstract
Composer, pianist, teacher, and social-justice activist Margaret Bonds (1913–72) fought against racism, sexism, and economic injustice throughout her career, amassing a portfolio of social-justice compositions unrivaled in eloquence and originality and challenging long-standing barriers between Black and White, male and female, popular and classical.
But most of her more than four hundred compositions have remained unknown and her life and work have been consistently viewed through the lens of specious racist and sexist biographical tropes that ultimately have little to do with Bonds as her own world knew her.
This book draws on an unprecedented mass of biographical, musical, and other documentary archival evidence to offer a fresh portrait of Margaret Bonds that not only brings to light the numerous groundbreaking activities that led to her success in her lifetime but also reveals her to have been an activist and creative achiever whose work is as much of our time as it was of her own.
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