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Marva Griffin Carter is an American musician, composer, musicologist, and author. She has worked as an academic administrator and professor at Georgia State University since 1993. In 2020 the Society for American Music recognized her work with a Lifetime Achievement Award, granted "in recognition of the recipient's significant and substantial lifetime achievement in scholarship, performance, teaching, and/or support of American Music."[1]

Early life and education

Carter graduated from the Boston Conservatory (now Boston Conservatory at Berklee) with a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance, and received a Master of Music from the New England Conservatory of Music. She then earned a second master's degree in musicology from Boston University in 1975. In 1988 she received a doctorate (PhD) from the University of Illinois at Urbana.[2]

The subject of her master's thesis at Boston University was the composer Hall Johnson.[3] Her PhD dissertation was titled The life and music of Will Marion Cook.[4] [5]

She has spoken of a serendipitous meeting in 1970 with the musicologist Eileen Southern, who inspired her to pursue an academic career, saying of the encounter, "[she] basically recruited me," and "I would not have achieved what I have, or even pursued my areas of interest were it not for her."[6]

Work and career

Carter began her academic career as coordinator of the African American Studies Program at Simmons University, Boston. She then became the chair of the Music Department at Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia. Since 1993 she has worked as an academic administrator and professor at Georgia State University, where she served as Assistant Director, later Director of Graduate Studies, and currently, Co-Chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee in the School of Music.[7] She was the 1998 Barbara Jordan/W. E. B. DuBois Award for Outstanding Teaching recipient.

She is a member of the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music.[8]

Her book Swing Along: The Musical life of Will Marion Cook was published in 2008.[9]

Carter was the organist for Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. She is also writing a book about the sacred musical traditions and repertoire of the historic church.

In 2020, her work was recognized with the Society for American Music's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Carter was featured in Harvard Radcliffe Institute's 2022 webinar Black Music and the American University: Eileen Southern's Story.[10] [11]

Personal life

Griffin Carter is married to the historian and civil rights scholar Lawrence Carter. They have one son, Lawrence Edward Carter Jr.[12] [13]

Publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2020-06-22 . 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Marva Griffin Carter – Georgia State University News – College of the Arts, Faculty, Music – . 2023-03-24 . Georgia State University (News Hub) . en-US.
  2. Web site: Marva Griffin Carter . 2023-03-24 . Georgia State University, School of Music . en-US.
  3. Web site: Griffin Carter . Marva . Hall Johnson – preserver of the Old Negro spirrtual (1880–1970) WorldCat.org . 2023-03-24 . www.worldcat.org . en.
  4. Carter . Marva Griffin . 1988 . The Life and Music of Will Marion Cook . Graduate Theses and Dissertations at Illinois . University of Illinois, IDEALS, the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship.
  5. 1988 . The life and music of Will Marion Cook . Thesis, Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . WorldCat.
  6. Web site: Note by note. Eileen Southern, AB'40, AM'41 (1920–2002), rewrote the history of American music. . 2023-03-24 . The University of Chicago Magazine . en.
  7. Web site: Marva Griffin Carter, Georgia State University scholars . 2023-05-19 . gsu.discovery.academicanalytics.com.
  8. Web site: Lifetime Achievement Award Honorees . 2023-03-24 . Society for American Music.
  9. Web site: 'My Lady Nicotine' by Will Marion Cook . 2024-05-28 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  10. Web site: Black Music and the American University: Eileen Southern's Story . 2023-03-24 . Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University . en.
  11. Web site: Music Scholars Discuss the Legacy of Harvard Professor Eileen Southern at Radcliffe Event News The Harvard Crimson. Ryan H. . Doan-Nguyen . Caleb H. Painter . April 8, 2022 . 2023-03-29 . www.thecrimson.com.
  12. Web site: Lawrence Edward Carter Sr., PH.D., D.D., D.H., D.R.S., D.H.C., MULT . 2017-04-19 . Morehouse College . en.
  13. Web site: Dr. Lawrence Carter, Sr., '60, Educator – West High Alumni Association . 2023-03-24 . westhighalumni.com.
  14. Web site: Carter . Marva Griffin . The "New Negro" Legacy of Will Marion Cook . 2023-03-24 . i-share-niu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com . en . 0364-2437.
  15. Book: Chorus and community . 2006 . University of Illinois Press . 0-252-03037-0 . Ahlquist . Karen . Urbana . 62281651.
  16. Weisenfeld . Judith . 2011 . "The Secret at the Root": Performing African American Religious Modernity in Hall Johnson's Run, Little Chillun . Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation . 21 . 1 . 39–80 . 10.1525/rac.2011.21.1.39 . 1052-1151.
  17. Book: Carter, Marva Griffin . Swing along : the musical life of Will Marion Cook . 2008 . Oxford University Press . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-986579-6 . Oxford . 875519263.
  18. Book: Swing Along: The Musical Life of Will Marion Cook . 2008-09-11 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-510891-0 . Oxford, New York.
  19. Web site: Colloquy: Shadow Culture Narratives: Race, Gender, and American Music Historiography . 2023-03-24 . online.ucpress.edu.

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