Belonging @ GSU
More than 100 programs, initiatives and policies at Georgia State address diversity, equity and inclusion across numerous fields.
A University For All
As a dynamic, multi-campus institution, Georgia State’s strategic vision for the decade ahead calls for us to grow even further as a place where people from all backgrounds and walks of life want to learn, study, work, live, play and connect.
Leading as a model for inclusion is a vital goal for the university. In valuing the wide range of backgrounds and life experiences that are integral to the people of Georgia State, part of our work to achieve this goal includes informing our communities about what we’ve done, where we’re going and what we can do to go even further.
This website provides a wealth of information about events, activities, programs, research projects, opportunities and resources to support our university community. We hope this information hub will assist you in learning more about the Georgia State community, our strengths, how we are working to identify where we can do better and how we are putting words into action.
We celebrate, value, and honor the cultures and communities that comprise Georgia State, and we hope this site reflects what we are and who we will be.
Upcoming Events
Resources
Senior Recital: Jessica Clemente, jazz voice
March 12, 2021
Program
MTM Live
Music Management
December 4, 2020
MTM Live is a virtual showcase produced by GSU student performers. This program is part of the Music Management Promotion course. Marketing, promotion, material, and production of MTM Live are by GSU students.
Books
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African American Heritage Hymnal. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2001.
André, Naomi. Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018.
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Baker, David N., Lida M. Belt, and Herman C. Hudson. The Black Composer Speaks. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1978.
Baranello, Micaela. “Welcoming a Black Female Composer into the Canon. Finally.” New York Times, February 9, 2018.
Bernardi, Daniel, and Michael Green, eds. Race in American Film. Voices and Visions That Shaped a Nation. 3 vols. Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood, 2017.
“Black Melbas and de Reskes: Negroes in Grand Opera.” The Sketch 53, no. 677 (17 January 1906): 30.
Blais-Tremblay, Vanessa. “’Where You Are Accepted. You Blossom’: Towards Care Ethics In Jazz Historiography.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Music, New Orleans, March 2019.
Brooks, Daphne A. Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performance of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006.
Brotz, Howard, ed. Political Thought 1850-1920. 2nd edition. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1993.
Brown, Rae Linda. “William Grant Still, Florence Price, and William Dawson: Echoes of the Harlem Renaissance.” In Black Music and the Harlem Renaissance, edited by Samuel A. Floyd, 71-86. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.
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Caplan, Lucy. “High Culture on the Lower Frequencies: African Americans and Opera, 1900-1933.” Ph.D. diss. Yale University, 2019.
Carroll, Rebecca, ed. Uncle Tom or New Negro?: African Americans Reflect on Booker T. Washington and Up from Slavery 100 Years Later. New York: Broadway Books, 2013.
Citron, Marcia J. Gender and the Musical Canon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Crawford, Richard. America’s Musical Life: A History. New York: Norton, 2001.
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Dawson, William L. “Interpretation of the Religious Folk-Songs of the American Negro,” Etude, March 1955, 11, 58, 61.
Douglass, Frederick. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. New York: Crowell-Collier Publishing, 1969.
Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk. New York: Dover, 1994.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence. “We Wear the Mask.” In The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. New York: Norton, 1997.
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Epstein, Dena J. Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Music to the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
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Floyd, Samuel A., Jr. The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
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Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed. Black Literature and Literary Theory. New York: Methuen, 1984.
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., The Signifyin(g) Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Graham, Sandra Jean. Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry. Urbana, IL.: University of Illinois Press, 2018.
Green, Mildred Denby. Black Women Composers: A Genesis. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1983.
Guinier, Lani, and Gerald Torres. The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Hatt, Michael. “Sculpting and Lynching: The Making and Unmaking of the Black Citizen in Late Nineteenth-Century America.” Oxford Art Journal 24, no. 1 (2001): 1-22.
Herskovits, Melville, Dahomey: An Ancient West African Kingdom. Vol. I. New York: J. J. Austin, 1938.
Holloway, Joseph E., ed. Africanisms in American Culture. 2nd edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
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Johnson, David Lee. “The Contributions of William L. Dawson to the School of Music at Tuskegee Institute and to Choral Music.” Ed.D. diss. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1987.
Johnson, James Weldon. Along this Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson. New York: The Viking Press, 133.
Johnson, James Weldon and J. Rosamond Johnson. The Books of American Negro Spirituals. New York: The Viking Press, 1953.
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Maultsby, Portia K. and Mellonee V. Burnim, eds. Issues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation. New York: Routledge, 2017
Maxile, Horace J., Jr. “Signs, Symphonies, and Signifyin(g): Topics as Analytical Approach to The Music of Black Composers.” Black Music Research Journal 28, No. 1 (Spring 2008): 128-38.
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“Negroes in Grand Opera.” The Sun (New York City), 7 May 1901, 7.
Nettl, Bruno. Heartland Excursions: Ethnomusicological Reflections on Schools of Music. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
Norrell, Robert J. Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Perry, Zenobia Powell. Music of Zenobia Powell Perry: Spirituals, Art Songs, and Chamber Music. Cambria CD-1138, 2009.
Pool, Jeannie Gayle. American Composer Zenobia Powell Perry: Race and Gender in the 20th Century. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2009.
Preston, Katherine K. Opera for the People: English-Language Opera and Women Managers In Late 19th-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Preston, Katherine K. Opera on the Road: Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States, 1825-60. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Price, Florence, Rae Linda Brown, and Wayne D. Shirley. Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3. Recent Researches in American Music, Vol. 66. Middleton, WI: Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, 2008.
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Ross, Alex. “The Rediscovery of Florence Price.” New Yorker, January 29, 2018.
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Schenbeck, Lawrence. Racial Uplift and American Music, 1878-1943. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012.
Smedley, Audrey and Brian Smedley. Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview. 4th ed. Boulder: Westview Press, 2012.
Smith, Ayana. “Blues, Criticism, and the Signifying Trickster.” Popular Music 24, no. 2, 2005, 179-91.
Solie, Ruth A., ed. Musicology and Difference: Gender and Sexuality in Music Scholarship. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History. 2nd edition. New York: W. W. Norton, 1983.
Stuckey, Sterling. Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
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Trenka, Susie. “Appreciation, Appropriation, Assimilation: Stormy Weather and the Hollywood History of Black Dance.” In The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen, 98-112. edited by Melissa Blanco Borelli. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Turner, Kristen M. “Class, Race, and Uplift in the Opera House: Theodore Drury and his Company Cross the Color Line.” Journal of Musicological Research 34, no. 4 (November 2015): 320-51.
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Walker-Hill, Helen, ed. Black Women Composers: A Century of Piano Music (1893-1990). Bryn Mawr, PA: Hildegard Publishing Company, 1992.
Walker-Hill, Helen. From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002
Bringing It All Together: The Diversity Database
The diversity database is a searchable center for activities related to diversity, equity and inclusion at the university.
With more than 100 programs and initiatives across numerous colleges and units, the database bridges gaps across fields.
Faculty and Staff
Georgia State’s faculty and staff are part of a community of many different racial and ethnic backgrounds, gender, gender identities and sexual orientations.
The university has multiple initiatives and activities to help foster increased diversity and equitable treatment for all and is studying and putting into action needed transformations.
Students
With one of the most diverse student bodies of any college or university in the country, Georgia State enables its students to succeed in an everchanging world. It has the benefit of being in a metropolitan area that has been at the heart of movements for civil rights and social justice.
The university provides a variety of resources to help students with needs, information to learn more, and ways to get involved.
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