This guide to Black composers offers a sampling of resources on their lives, works, and social contexts. Like Duke Libraries' "5 Titles" blog, this guide is meant to offer a selection of resources rather than serve as a comprehensive list.
Includes profiles of Black classical composers and musicians from the 16th through the 21st centuries. A good starting place for basic information about black composers.
This online encyclopedia covers the history of African American music through more than 500 entries that cover multiple time periods and musical genres.
The third edition of this catalog is now available online, and includes music dedicated to the memory of Dr. King, works by Black composers, programming suggestions, genre indices, and other resources.
Almost thirteen hundred musical stage works spanning over 200 years are included in this volume, which includes both alphabetical and chronological organizations of the works.
This works included in this volume of African-American spirituals are organized into four indices: by title, by alternate title, by topic, and by first line.
Information included in the entires in this index cover artist names, bands and their personnel, location of the film or video, instrumentation, works performed in the film or video, and other relevant information.
In addition to providing a listing of African American Spirituals, this online volume provides historical and cultural context of the genre. The volume includes biographical information and indices of the spirituals by title, arranger, and subject.