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Episode Description
A musical prodigy from Kansas becomes a renowned race woman in Chicago, a tabloid sensation in Harlem, and an internationally renowned musical force. These are the many lives and loves of one of the most famous women of the era: Nora Holt.
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SOURCES
- Nora Holt: The Most Famous Woman You've Never Heard Of by Imani Perry
- Nora Holt by Matthew Guerrieri
- Nora Holt: New Negro Composer and Jazz Age Goddess by Cheryl A. Wall
- "Strange What Cosmopolites Music Makes of Us": Classical Music, the Black press, and Nora Douglas Holt's Black Feminist Audiotopia by Lucy Caplan