Josephine Wright
Josephine Wright | |
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| Born | September 5, 1942 Detroit, Michigan |
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| Discipline | Musicology |
| Institutions | Harvard University, College of Wooster, Ohio |
Josephine Rosa Beatrice Wright (born September 5, 1942)
Biography
Wright was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1942.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree in music from the University of Missouri, a master's degree in music from Pius XII Academy in Florence, a master's degree in music from the University of Missouri, and a doctoral degree in historical musicology from New York University.[1][2] She was the second African American to earn a doctorate in music, after Eileen Southern, her mentor and collaborator.[1]
Wright served as an assistant professor at Harvard University's Department of Afro-American studies from 1976 to 1981.[1] In 1981, she file a suit against Harvard with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, accusing the institution of race and gender discrimination.[3] That year, she joined the faculty at the College of Wooster, where she was named a professor of music and Josephine Lincoln Morris Professor of Black Studies.[1] As of 2020, she continued to hold this position.[4]
Wright is recognized as an expert in African-American music, women in music, black women's history, and Western music history.[1][2][4] With Eileen Southern, she co-authored African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale, and Dance, 1600s-1920 (1990) and Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture, 1770s-1920s (2000). Wright served as editor of American Music from 1994 to 1997.[1] In 1997, she was named to the national artistic directorate of the American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Cincinnati.[5]
In 2015, the Society for American Music presented Wright with a Lifetime Achievement Award.[2] In 2019, she was elected an honorary member of the American Musicological Society "as a pioneer in the study and teaching of women's and African-Americans' participation in musical life."[4]
Selected works
Books
Book chapters
- Wright, Josephine (1986). "Early African musicians in Britain". In Lotz, Rainer E.; Pegg, Ian (eds.). Under the Imperial Carpet: Essays in Black history, 1780-1950. Crawley, UK: Rabbit Press. pp. 14–24. OCLC 18662181.
- Wright, Josephine (2000). "Coming of age: Reflections on black music scholarship". In Heintze, J.R.; Saffle, M. (eds.). Reflections on American Music: The Twentieth Century and the New Millennium. Sheffield, MA: Pendragon Press. pp. 391–6.
- Wright, Josephine R. B. (2014). "Art/classical music". In Burnim, Mellonee V.; Maultsby, Portia K. (eds.). African American Music: An Introduction (Second ed.). New York: Routledge. pp. 154–176. OCLC 989370939.
Journal articles
- Wright, Josephine R. B. (1980). "George Polgreen Bridgetower: An African prodigy in England 1789–99". The Musical Quarterly. 66 (1): 65–82. ISSN 0027-4631.
- Wright, Josephine (1990). "Violinist Jose White in Paris, 1855-1875". Black Music Research Journal. 10 (2): 213–232. JSTOR 779386.
- Wright, Josephine (1990). "A preliminary bibliographical guide to periodical literature for black music research". Black Music Research Journal. 10 (1): 14–17. JSTOR 779525.
- Wright, Josephine (2006). "Songs of remembrance". The Journal of African American History. 91 (4): 413–424. S2CID 140464352.
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
- ^ a b c Clawson, Kerry (2015-03-19). "Students have chance to 'Meet the Orchestra'". The Akron Beacon Journal. pp. E017. Retrieved 2020-08-06 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Teacher names Harvard in race bias suit". The Boston Globe. 1981-05-06. p. 50. Retrieved 2020-08-06 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "Josephine Wright Earns One of Highest Honors in Field of Musicology – News – College of Wooster". Retrieved 2020-08-06.
- ^ "Profesor earns honor". News-Journal. 1997-11-30. p. 22. Retrieved 2020-08-06 – via Newspapers.com.
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