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Contains music information information and web sources of general interest
Recording Discographies:
Classical Music Recordings of Black Composers: a reference guide and listing
Reference Sources (web)
Afrocentric Voices Devoted to African American performers and composers, and to the vocal music forms they influenced; especially opera, art songs and Negro spirituals composed for concert performance. Also an excellent resource non-vocal music information.
ATC Air Traffic Control – Connecting Music Community to Social Action. An organization that believes in the power of music, the influence of musicians and the ability of music fans to make a social change. Learn about Education, Media, Humanitarian Relief, Energy & Environment, Health Care and War.
Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) Established at Indiana University. Serves as a repository of materials covering various Black musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era.
Future of Music Coalition. A national non-profit education, research and advocacy organization that identifies, examines, interprets and translates the challenging issues at the intersection of music, law, technology and policy. FMC achieves this through continuous interaction with its primary constituency – musicians – and in collaboration with other creator/citizen groups.
Marian Anderson Collections University of Pennsylvania Library. Marian Anderson’s repertory included well over one hundred spirituals. She clearly favored the arrangements of African American composers Harry T. Burleigh, Nathaniel Dett, and Hall Johnson, whose names appeared most often on her concert programs.
Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture A research unit of The New York Public Library. Devoted to documenting the experiences of peoples of African descent throughout the world, with emphasis on blacks in the Western Hemisphere. Includes exhibitions, publications, educational, scholarly, and cultural programs.
Sound Authors - Virtual Online Media
Traditional African-American/Negro Spirituals – A good source regarding the history of Spirituals, a comprehensive listing and librettos from standard to not so well known songs.
Reference Sources (books, encyclopedias)
The Music of Black Americans: A History by Rudolf Steiner, Eileen J. Southern
International Dictionary of Black Composers by Samuel A. Floyd (Editor)
Musical Landscapes in Color: Conversations With Black American Composers by William Banfield
Woodwind Music of Black Composers by Aaron Horne (compiler)
Musician Partners and Friends
Paquito D’Rivera
Rene Marie
John Clark
Steve Coleman
Kids’ Sites
The New York Philharmonic KidZone!
Repertoire Sources
International Opus – Publisher/retailer of the wind chamber music of Valerie Coleman, Paquito D’Rivera, and Justinian Tamasuza.