September 26, 2016
Ethnomusicologist Jean E. Snyder has taught in Kenya and Zambia and has done ethnographic research in Jamaica as well as in communities involved in the steel industry in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Her biography, Harry T....
July 2, 2020
Tyshawn Sorey (b. July 8, 1980) became Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University in 2017. Sorey is an active composer, performer, educator, and scholar who works across an extensive range of musical idioms. As a...
August 6, 2016
African-American musicologist; she received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Chicago (1940, 1941) and studied with Gustave Reese at New York University, where she completed her Ph.D. in 1961. She taught...
August 6, 2016
Popularly referred to as "the Dean of African-American Composers", William Grant Still has been almost universally recognized for his contributions
August 6, 2016
b. 1907-1978 Many African-American composers have been lauded for the high quality of their song writing. Called the American Fauré .
June 17, 2021
Oakland-born Musician and Educator.
September 13, 2021
Omari Tau, baritone, is Co-Founding Artistic Director of Rogue Music Project and Professor of Vocal Music at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, CA. His degrees are from Michigan State University and the Moores School...