Article: Shaping uplift through music.(Harriett Gibbs Marshall)(Biography)

Doris Evans McGinty and others have documented the corps of black musicians and educators who embraced the repertoire of western European composers as a means to facilitate a self-help philosophy known as racial uplift propelling African-American upward mobility after Emancipation. This paper continues her work on the Washington Conservatory, a privately funded music school for black students that was located in the once-affluent black U-Street neighborhood of Washington, D.C. (McGinty, 1979). I hoped to discover how the conservatory's founder, Harriett Marshall, shaped the rhetoric of racial uplift through music. I was especially curious about the motivations behind some ...

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