An annotated catalog of composers of African ancestry
| Books | TheMusicSack | People |
|---|
| 1986 |
|---|
| The above item has biographical information on: |
|---|
| Adams, Alton Augustus (b. 1889 d. 1987) | bandmaster, composer |
| Adams, Leslie (b. 1932) | cast, piano |
| Adams, Wellington Alexander (b. 1879) | composer |
| Akpabot, Samuel Ekpe (b. 1931) | college professor, composer |
| Aldridge, Amanda Ira (b. 1866 d. 1956) | piano, teacher |
| Amu, Ephraim (b. 1899) | college professor, composer |
| Anderson, Thomas Jefferson (b. 1928) | composer |
| Anderson, Walter Franklin (b. 1915) | college professor |
| Andrews, Ismay (a. 1935) | composer |
| Appling, William (a. 1984) | composer, music director |
| Archer, Dudley Malcolm (b. 1899 d. 1973) | organ, composer |
| Baker, David Nathaniel (b. 1931) | bassoon, composer |
| Ballanta-Taylor, Nicholas George Julius (b. 1893) | ethnomusicologist |
| Bankole, Ayo (b. 1935 d. 1976) | composer |
| Banks, Robert (b. 1930) | arranger, organ |
| Barbour, J. Berni (b. 1881) | vaudeville pianist, songwriter |
| Bares, Basile (b. 1845 d. 1902) | composer |
| Barnes, Erik (b. 1955) | composer |
| Beard, Ivy Lee (b. 1943 d. 1978) | composer |
| Beckon, Lettie Marie (b. 1953) | composer, piano |
| Bethune Greene, Thomas (b. 1849 d. 1908) | piano, composer |
| Billups, Kenneth Browne (b. 1918 d. 1985) | music educator, choir conductor |
| Bledsoe, Jules (b. 1898 d. 1943) | cast, singer |
| Boatner, Edward Hammond (b. 1898 d. 1981) | composer |
| Bolin, Paul C. (a. 1920) | composer |
| Bonds, Margaret (Allison) (b. 1913 d. 1972) | composer, piano |
| Bonnemere, Eddie [Edward Valentine] (b. 1921) | piano |
| Brown, John Harold (b. 1902 d. 1981) | composer |
| Brown, Lawrence Benjamin (b. 1893 d. 1972) | composer, piano |
| Burleigh, Henry Thacker (b. 1866 d. 1949) | composer, singer |
| Butler, Frank S. (b. 1883) | piano, composer |
| Calhoun, W. Arthur | composer |
| Carter, John (b. 1937) | piano, composer |
| Casseus, Frantz Gabriel (b. 1921) | composer, lyricist |
| Ceron, Jose Dolores (b. 1897 d. 1969) | composer |
| Charlton, Melville (b. 1880 d. 1973) | organ |
| Cheatham, Wallace McClain (b. 1945) | organ, composer |
| Childs, John Michael (b. 1932 a. 1974) | composer |
| Christy, Otto Mae Jones (b. 1920) | composer |
| Clark, Edgar Rogie (b. 1917 d. 1978) | singer, composer |
| Clarke, Bonna Mae Perine | composer |
| Clary, Salone Theodore (b. 1939) | composer, music educator |
| Clay, Omar (a. 1976) | composer |
| Cochrane, Arthur Myron (b. 1878) | composer |
| Coleman, Charles DeWitt (b. 1926 d. 1991) | composer, organ |
| Coleridge-Taylor, Avril Gwendolen (b. 1903) | conductor, composer |
| Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel (b. 1875 d. 1912) | composer |
| Cook, Doc (b. 1891 d. 1958) | piano, arranger |
| Cook, Will Marion (b. 1869 d. 1944) | composer, director |
| Cooper, William Benjamin (b. 1920 d. 1993) | organ, composer |
| Cordero, Roque (b. 1917) | composer, conductor |
| Crowder, Henry (a. 1943) | composer |
| Cunningham, Arthur H. (b. 1928) | composer |
| Da Costa, Noel George (b. 1929) | composer, violin |
| Davis, Elmer L. (b. 1926 d. 1983 a. 1980) | conductor, teacher |
| Dawson, William Levi (b. 1899 d. 1990) | composer, conductor |
| De Paur, Leonard Etienne (b. 1915) | composer, choral director |
| Dede, Edmund (b. 1827 d. 1903 a. 1862) | violin, clarinet |
| Dennis, Norton Edward | composer |
| Dett, Robert Nathaniel (Farbiger) (b. 1882 d. 1943) | composer, teacher |
| Dickerson, Roger Donald (b. 1934) | composer |
| Dill, William Leslie (b. 1913) | bandleader, composer |
| Dinroe, Dorothy | composer |
| Diton, Carl Rossini (b. 1886 d. 1962) | piano, composer |
| Dorsey, James Elmo (b. 1905) | baritone, composer |
| Dorsey, Thomas A. [Thomas Andrew] (b. 1899 d. 1993) | blues singer, piano |
| Dubois, Shirley Graham (b. 1906 d. 1977) | author, composer |
| Dunbar, W. Rudolph (b. 1907 d. 1988) | conductor, composer |
| Duncan, John (b. 1913 d. 1975) | composer, college professor |
| El-Dabh, Halim (Abdul Messiah) (b. 1921) | composer |
| Elie, Justin (b. 1883 d. 1931) | conductor, composer |
| Elkins, William Cuthbert (b. 1872) | director |
| Euba, Akin (b. 1935) | composer, university professor |
| Eubanks, Rachel Amelia (b. 1922) | composer, administrator |
| Evanti, Lillian (b. 1890 d. 1967) | soprano |
| Fax, Mark Oakland (b. 1911 d. 1974) | college professor, composer |
| Fischer, William Samuel (b. 1935) | arranger, composer |
| Fleming, Larry Lee | composer |
| Fletcher, John (a. 1973) | composer |
| Floyd, Samuel Alexander (b. 1937) | music educator, administrator |
| Fountain, Primous (b. 1949) | composer |
| Freeman, Harry Lawrence (b. 1869 d. 1954) | composer, conductor |
| Frierson, Andrew (b. 1927) | baritone |
| Furman, James (b. 1937 d. 1989) | composer, music educator |
| Gillum, Ruth Helen (b. 1906 d. 1991) | piano, educator |
| Grider, Joseph William (a. 1986) | composer |
| Hackley, Emma Azalia (b. 1867 d. 1922) | soprano, concert singer |
| Hagan, Helen Eugenia (b. 1893 d. 1964 a. 1912) | organ, piano |
| Hailstork, Adolphus Cunningham (b. 1941) | composer, conductor |
| Hairston, Jacqueline Butler (b. 1938) | composer, arranger |
| Hairston, Jester Joseph (b. 1901) | choir conductor |
| Hakim, Talib Rasul (b. 1940 d. 1988) | composer |
| Hall, Frederick Douglass (b. 1898 d. 1982) | music educator, composer |
| Hancock, Eugene Wilson (White) (b. 1929 d. 1994) | music educator, organ |
| Handy, W.C. [William Christopher] (b. 1873 d. 1958) | additional Music, cast |
| Hare, Maud Cuney (b. 1874 d. 1936) | writer, piano |
| Harris, Ethel Ramos (b. 1908) | piano, composer |
| Harris, Howard C. (b. 1940) | conductor, arranger |
| Harris, Margaret Rosezarian (b. 1943) | piano, conductor |
| Harris, Robert Allen (b. 1938) | piano, music educator |
| Hayes, Joseph C. (b. 1920) | composer, music educator |
| Haynes, Eugene (b. 1928) | music educator, piano |
| Hebron, J. Harvey (b. 1888) | composer |
| Henry, Raymond | composer |
| Herbison, James W. (b. 1947) | composer |
| Herbison, Jeraldine Saunders (b. 1941) | violin, music educator |
| Heywood, Donald (b. 1901 d. 1967) | cast, composer |
| Hicks, L'roy Edward (b. 1931) | composer |
| Hill, Edward Francis | composer |
| Holland, Justin Miner (b. 1819 d. 1887) | composer, guitar |
| Holt, Nora Douglas (b. 1885 d. 1974) | journalist, critic |
| Huffman, Ethel Brown (a. 1935) | composer |
| Jackson, Eugene Aldama (b. 1886) | composer |
| Jackson, Marylou India (a. 1935) | composer |
| James, Willis Laurence (b. 1900 d. 1966) | music educator, violin |
| Jenkins, Edmund Thornton (b. 1894 d. 1926) | composer, reeds |
| Jessye, Eva Alberta (b. 1895 d. 1992) | ass. al cori, choir conductor |
| Johns, Altona Trent (b. 1904 d. 1977) | piano, composer |
| Johnson, Bessie Viola (b. 1880) | composer |
| Johnson, Frank (b. 1792 d. 1844) | clarinet, composer |
| Johnson, Hall (b. 1888 d. 1970) | choir, choral director |
| Johnson, J. Rosamond [John Rosamund] (b. 1873 d. 1954) | composer, singer |
| Kay, Ulysses (Simpson) (b. 1917 d. 1995) | composer |
| Kennedy, Matthew Washington (b. 1921) | music educator |
| Kerr, Thomas Henderson (b. 1915 d. 1988) | college professor, composer |
| Killingsworth, John Dekoven (b. 1898) | music educator |
| King, Betty Jackson [Betty Lou] (b. 1928 d. 1994) | music educator, composer |
| Lambert, Lucien Leon Guillaume (b. 1858 d. 1945) | composer, piano |
| Lamothe, Ludovic (b. 1882 d. 1954) | composer, piano |
| Lateef, Yusef (b. 1920) | flute, tenor saxophone |
| Lavergne, Patrick (b. 1955) | composer |
| Lawrence, William (b. 1895 d. 1981) | accompanist, singer |
| Layton, John Turner (b. 1841 d. 1916) | music educator |
| Leon, Tania Justina (b. 1943 a. 1967) | composer, conductor |
| Lewis, Frederick Elliot (b. 1846) | piano, organ |
| Lloyd, Charles (b. 1948) | composer, piano |
| Logan, Wendell (Morris) (b. 1940) | composer, music educator |
| Lovinggood, Penman (b. 1895) | writer, singer |
| Marcus, Wade (a. 1972) | arranger, composer |
| Margetson, Edward Henry (b. 1891 d. 1962) | composer |
| Maultsby, Portia Katrenia (b. 1947) | composer, teacher |
| Mayes, Robert M. (b. 1910) | composer |
| McCarty, Victor Eugene (b. 1821 d. 1890) | composer |
| McDaniel, William Foster (b. 1940) | arranger, composer |
| McLin, Lena Johnson (b. 1928) | music educator, choir conductor |
| McSwain, Augusta Geraldine (b. 1917) | piano, teacher |
| Mells, Herbert Franklin (b. 1909 d. 1956) | music educator, composer |
| Merrifield, Norman Lavelle (b. 1906) | composer, arranger |
| Miller, James (b. 1907) | composer |
| Miller, Lester (a. 1986) | composer |
| Moffatt, Richard Cullen (b. 1927 d. 1982) | composer, piano |
| Montague, J. Harold (b. 1907 d. 1950) | music educator, conductor |
| Moore, Carman Leroy (b. 1936) | composer, writer |
| Moore, Dorothy Rudd (b. 1940) | composer, soprano |
| Moore, Kermit Diton (b. 1929) | cello, arranger |
| Moore, Undine Smith (b. 1905 d. 1989) | composer, music educator |
| Morgan, William Astor (b. 1890) | composer, teacher of piano and theory |
| Morrison, George Sumner (b. 1891 d. 1974) | bandleader |
| Mosley, J. Orville B. (b. 1909) | composer |
| Mundy, James Ahlyn (b. 1886 d. 1978) | choir conductor |
| Nickerson, Camille Lucie (b. 1888 d. 1982) | piano, organ |
| Nketia, Kwabena J.H. (b. 1921) | ethnomusicologist |
| Norman, Jeanette Latimer | composer |
| Owens, Bankston | composer |
| Owens, Robert Lee (b. 1925) | composer, piano |
| Parker, Kaye | composer |
| Parker, Reginald Nathaniel (b. 1929 d. 1970) | organ, teacher |
| Parks, Gordon Alexander (b. 1912) | film producer, composer |
| Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor (b. 1932) | composer, dance arranger |
| Perry, Julia (Amanda) (b. 1924 d. 1979) | composer, conductor |
| Phillips, Arthur A. (b. 1918) | composer |
| Pittman, Evelyn Larue (b. 1910 d. 1992) | music educator, composer |
| Price, Florence Beatrice (b. 1888 d. 1953) | composer, arranger |
| Price, John Elwood (b. 1935) | composer, piano |
| Reece, Donald Cortez (b. 1908 d. 1974) | music educator, arranger |
| Rivers, Clarence Joseph (b. 1931) | composer of sacred music, priest |
| Roberts, Howard Alfred (b. 1924) | choir conductor, music director |
| Robinson, Alphonse (b. 1910) | organ, composer |
| Robinson, Josephus (a. 1980) | composer, arranger |
| Roldan, Amadeo (b. 1900 d. 1939) | composer, violin |
| Roxbury, Ronald Marle (b. 1946 d. 1986) | composer, instrumentalist |
| Ryder, Noah Francis (b. 1914 d. 1964) | music educator, conductor |
| Saint-Georges, Joseph Boulogne (b. 1739 d. 1799) | composer, violin |
| Schuyler, Philippa Duke (b. 1932 d. 1967) | piano, composer |
| Simpson, Eugene Thamon (b. 1932) | piano, arranger |
| Simpson, Ralph Ricardo (b. 1933) | composer |
| Singleton, Alvin (Elliot) (b. 1940) | composer |
| Smith, Hale (b. 1925) | composer, arranger |
| Smith, Nathaniel Clark (b. 1877 d. 1933) | conductor, music educator |
| Smith, Warren I. (b. 1934) | jazz percussionist, college professor |
| Smith, William Henry (b. 1908 d. 1944) | composer |
| Southall, Mitchell Bernard (b. 1922 d. 1989) | composer, arranger |
| Sowande, Fela [Olufela] (b. 1905 d. 1987) | composer, organ |
| Still, William Grant (b. 1895 d. 1978) | arranger, composer |
| Swanson, Howard (b. 1907 d. 1978) | composer |
| Talbert, Wendell P. | composer, piano |
| Taylor, Jean (a. 1928) | composer |
| Taylor, Maude Cummings (b. 1897 d. 1984) | composer, teacher |
| Terry, J. Roy (b. 1899) | composer, piano |
| Thomas, Alfred Jack (b. 1884 d. 1962) | military bandmaster |
| Thomas, Blanche Katurah (b. 1885 d. 1977) | choir conductor, teacher |
| Thomas, C. Edward (b. 1935) |
| Thomas, Carlette Catherine | composer |
| Tillis, Frederick Charles (b. 1930) | composer, administrator |
| Tindley, Charles Albert (b. 1851 d. 1933) | minister, composer of gospel hymns |
| Turkson, Adolphis (b. 1937) | composer |
| Tyler, Jesse Gerald (b. 1879 d. 1938) | piano, composer |
| Valentine, Alexander Mark (b. 1895) | bandmaster, teacher |
| Walker, George Theophilius (b. 1922) | banjo, composer |
| Walter, Reginald G. (b. 1948) | composer |
| Whalum, Wendell Phillips (b. 1931 d. 1987) | music educator, choral director |
| White, Clarence Cameron (b. 1880 d. 1960) | composer, violin |
| White, Don Lee (b. 1930) | organ, choral director |
| White, Joseph (b. 1833 d. 1920) | composer |
| Whiting, Helen Adele Johnson (b. 1885) | composer |
| Williams, Andrew Thomas (b. 1885) | bass, conductor |
| Williams, Arnold K. (b. 1928) | music educator, conductor |
| Williams, Julius Penson (b. 1954) | composer, conductor |
| Wilson, Olly (Woodrow) (b. 1937) | composer, trombone |
| Wisner, Genevieve McVey (b. 1907) | music educator, composer |
| Work, Frederick Jerome (b. 1880 d. 1942) | composer, scholar |
| Work, John Wesley (b. 1901 d. 1967) | composer, scholar |
| Work, John Wesley (b. 1873 d. 1925) | composer, tenor |
| Work, Julian C. (b. 1910) | arranger, composer |