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Writings
Dr. Samantha Ege's first book, South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago's Classical Music Scene, and forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Florence B. Price (co-edited with Alexandra Kori Hill) illuminate Price in the context of the Black Chicago Renaissance and Black women's musical networks.
Dr. Ege has published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of the Society for American Music, American Music, and Women & Music. She also has chapters in edited collections on American music and women's histories. Her work has been recognized through following awards and fellowships: the 2024 Society for American Music H. Earle Johnson Publication Subvention Award, 2023 American Musicological Society Publications Committee Subvention Grant, 2023 Society for American Music Irving Lowens Article Award, 2021 American Musicological Society Noah Greenberg Award, 2019 Society for American Music Eileen Southern Fellowship, and 2019 Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship.
She has also written for the New York Times, Guardian, and New Statesman, as well as Gramophone, I Care If You Listen, Pianist, and International Piano.
"Ege places Black women classical composers in their rightful intellectual and cultural context."
- Barbara D. Savage
Professor Emerita, University of Pennsylvania
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