Black Composers in Classical Music

African American Music Reference provides full-text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is expanding to include coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, and other forms of black American musical expression.

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