Bea breaks barriers! : how Florence Beatrice Price's music triumphed over prejudice
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, [2024]
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Audience
1234 Childrens Plus, Inc.
Summary
Florence Beatrice Bea Price loved music from a young age. When she wasn't practicing on the piano, she tapped her feet, drummed her fingers, and whistled. Growing up in Little Rock, Arkansas, she was surrounded by Negro spirituals, classical music, Juba dance rhythms, and folk songs and even had the chance to play piano with John William Blind Boone. But as a young Black girl living in the South, Bea wasn't offered the same chances as white children. Not allowed to perform in public, Bea s first recital was in her living room. But Bea was not deterred. She studied hard, rose to the top of her class, and was accepted to the New England Conservatory of Music one of two Black students and majored in both music and composition. Bea never forgot her roots and wove all kinds of musical genres into her musical compositions and spirituals.
Subjects
- African American women composers > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- African American composers > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Composers > United States > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- African American women > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- African American composers > Biography.
- African American women > Biography.
- African American composers.
- African American women.
- Composers.
- Women > Biography.
- Price, Florence, 1887-1953 > Juvenile literature.
- Price, Florence, 1887-1953.