“Contemporary Compositions for Trumpet by Black American Composers in an Era of Unrest and Change: Regina Harris Baiocchi’s Miles Per Hour, Alvin Singleton’s Vous Compra, and Alice Jones’s A handful of sand” (September 2022). Access the thesis here.

A Critical Analysis of the Performance Practice of Black Women in Music (March 2020). Access the article here.

Works by Undine Smith Moore, Mary Watkins, and Regina Harris Baiocchi (December 2019). Access the article here.

Margaret Bonds and Her Place in the Classical Canon (December 2018). Access the article here.

Summary: Research on Black Female Instrumentalists Harriet Gibbs Marshall, Florence Price, and Margaret Bonds (Spring 2018).

About: While pursuing her graduate studies at Yale University, she worked as a Research Assistant for the Department of African American Studies under Professor Daphne Brooks. As a continuation of her undergraduate research, she presented her archival project “African-American Female Instrumentalists: An Archive of Black Female Sound from the Late Nineteenth Century to Now” for Yale’s The Black Sound and the Archive Working Group’s event “Exhibition: Sound Archives”. While at Yale, she also presented original research in her presentation “The Music of Black Women: Blues, Freedom, and Afrofuturism”.

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Summary: Thesis for the Kilachand Honors College at Boston University (May 2017).

About: While enrolled in the Kilachand Honors College as an undergraduate, Chloe completed her thesis Keystone Project: “African-American Female Instrumentalists”. In her research, she focused on the contributions of Black female instrumentalists from the 1880’s to today.

(1) Access the thesis here.
(2) Access the thesis video presentation here.