Selected Books and Essays

Books:

• Black American Music Past and Present by Hildred Roach

• Lift Every Voice: The History of African American Music by Burton Peretti

• African American Music: An Introduction by Earl Stewart

• Black Music Biography: An Annotated Bibliography by Samuel Floyd and Marsha Reisser

• Musical Landscapes in Color: Conversations with Black American Composers by William Banfield

• Cultural Codes: Makings of a Black Music Philosophy by William Banfield

• Black Women Composers: A Genesis by Mildred Denby Green

• The Black Composer Speaks, edited by Baker, Belt, and Hudson

• Negro Musicians and their Music by Maude Cuney-Hare

• From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and Their Music by Helen Walker-Hill

• Wade in the water: the wisdom of the spirituals by Arthur C. Jones

• Black Opera History, Power, Engagement A musical challenge to our view of the past by Naomi Andre

• And So I Sing: African American Divas of Opera and Concert by Rosalyn M. Story

• Race Music by Guthrie P. Ramsey

• How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement by Ruth Feldstein

• Flaming?: The Peculiar Theopolitics of Fire and Desire in Black Male Gospel Performance by Alisha Lola Jones

• Gender and the Musical Canon by Marcia Citron

• In Their Own Words: Slave Life and the Power of Spirituals by Eileen Guenther

• Way Over in Beulah Lan’: Understanding and Performing the Negro Spiritual by André J. Thomas

Biographies:

• The Life and Music of Jacqueline Hairston by Phillip Harris

• American Composer Zenobia Powell Perry: Race and Gender in the 20th Century by Jeannie Pool

• The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price by Rae Linda Brown

• The Hall Johnson Concert Spirituals: An Annotated Guide to Interpretation and Performance by Eugene Thamon Simpson

• Sissieretta Jones “The Greatest Singer of her race” 1868-1933 by Maureen D. Lee

• I never walked alone: Autobiography of an American Singer by Shirley Verrett with Christopher Brooks

• I Dream a World: The Operas of William Grant Still by Beverly Soll

Other Resources:

• International Dictionary of Black Composers

Essays:

• “Rudolph Bing and the Demise of Jim Crow at the Metropolitan Opera” by Maurice Wheeler

• “The Importance of Studying African-American Art Song" by Darryl Taylor

Music by Composers of Color