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Musicologist Douglas Shadle to Give Talk About Florence Price
On Tuesday, Feb. 8, Douglas Shadle will give a talk entitled "Composer Florence Price, Arkansas, and the Law." Shadle is associate professor and chair of the musicology and ethnomusicology department at Vanderbilt Univeristy and is currently writing a biography of Florence Price in collaboration with Samantha Ege. The talk will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Gearhart Hall 26.
Little Rock native Florence Beatrice Price (1887-1953), the first African American woman to earn international acclaim as a composer, called Arkansas home for nearly four decades. The available published research on Price has explored the significance of the state's rich cultural heritage on the development of her musical style. Drawing on previously unstudied evidence, this presentation will examine the shifting legal landscape in early Jim Crow Arkansas and demonstrate that the state's racist legal system profoundly shaped Price's family values as well as her ultimate decision to pursue classical music as a profession. Viewed in this light, Arkansas was a profound source of both inspiration and struggle.
Shadle is the author of two books, Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony (2021) and Orchestrating the Nation (2016), both published by Oxford University Press. His work has been cited by the New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker and Boston Globe. His recent essay "Classical Music and the Color Line," published in Boston Review, examined how "more than anything, the artistic questions facing classical music today go well beyond the simple dualism of keeping or tossing the canon; they revolve most of all around access and the hurdles facing marginalized musicians."
The talk will be in hybrid format and livestreamed on Zoom but registration is required. The event is sponsored by the Department of Music and University Library Special Collections.
Contacts
Micaela K. Baranello, assistant professor
Department of Music
479-575-4701,
mbarane@uark.edu
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