Black American music. Past and present
Vol. II
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  Adams, Alton Augustus (b. 1889 d. 1987) |   bandmaster, composer |
  Adams, Leslie (b. 1932) |   cast, piano |
  Adams, Wellington Alexander (b. 1879) |   composer |
  Ajibola, J.O. (b. 1898) |   barrister, minister |
  Akpabot, Samuel Ekpe (b. 1931) |   college professor, composer |
  Allen, Gilbert (b. 1907) |   conductor, composer |
  Anderson, Thomas Jefferson (b. 1928) |   composer |
  Atehortua, Blas Emilio (b. 1933) |   composer |
  Atwell, Drucilla |   composer |
  Bahia, Xisto (b. 1841 d. 1894) |   composer, singer |
  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 |
  Barefield, Eddie [Edward Emmanuel] (b. 1909) |   clarinet, music director |
  Battle, Edgar William (b. 1907) |   composer, trumpeter |
  Bebey, Francis (b. 1929) |   singer, composer |
  Billups, Kenneth Browne (b. 1918 d. 1985) |   music educator, choir conductor |
  Blake, Eubie [James Hubert] (b. 1883 d. 1983) |   cast, composer |
  Bledsoe, Jules (b. 1898 d. 1943) |   cast, singer |
  Boatner, Edward Hammond (b. 1898 d. 1981) |   composer |
  Bonnemere, Eddie [Edward Valentine] (b. 1921) |   piano |
  Botelho, Manuel de Almeida (b. 1721) |   compositor, musico |
  Boyd, Wynn Leo (b. 1902) |   composer |
  Bridgetower, George (Augustus) Polgreen (b. 1779 d. 1860) |   violin |
  Brindis de Salas, Claudio Jose Domingo (b. 1800 d. 1872) |   composer, conductor |
  Broadnax, Eugene James (b. 1907) |   composer |
  Brown, Charles (b. 1940) |   singer, composer |
  Brown, John Harold (b. 1902 d. 1981) |   composer |
  Brown, Uzee (b. 1951) |   bass-baritone, bass |
  Bruce, J. |   composer |
  Burkes, Eugene Alexander |   composer |
  Burrs, Leslie S. (b. 1952) |   flute, music educator |
  Busch, Marie (b. 1908) |   composer |
  Butler, Frank S. (b. 1883) |   piano, composer |
  Butler, William H. (b. 1903) |   musician, publisher |
  Calhoun, W. Arthur |   composer |
  Carter, Roland (b. 1942) |   music educator, choral director |
  Carter, Ron [Ronald Levin] (b. 1937) |   bass (instrument), bass |
  Carter, Warrick (b. 1942) |   arranger, composer |
  Cartman, Shirley (b. 1931) |   composer |
  Cele, Madikane |   composer |
  Ceron, Jose Dolores (b. 1897 d. 1969) |   composer |
  Charlton, Melville (b. 1880 d. 1973) |   organ |
  Childs, John Michael (b. 1932 a. 1974) |   composer |
  Clark, Rogie (b. 1917) |   composer |
  Clary, Salone Theodore (b. 1939) |   composer, music educator |
  Cliff, Jimmy (b. 1948) |   reggae singer |
  Cohen, Cecil (b. 1894 d. 1967) |   piano, teacher |
  Coleman, Charles DeWitt (b. 1926 d. 1991) |   composer, organ |
  Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel (b. 1875 d. 1912) |   composer |
  Cooper, William Benjamin (b. 1920 d. 1993) |   organ, composer |
  Cordero, Roque (b. 1917) |   composer, conductor |
  Cunningham, Arthur H. (b. 1928) |   composer |
  Current, Gloster B. |   musician, author |
  Da Costa, Noel George (b. 1929) |   composer, violin |
  Dawson, William Levi (b. 1899 d. 1990) |   composer, conductor |
  De Paur, Leonard Etienne (b. 1915) |   composer, choral director |
  De Preist, James (Anderson) (b. 1936) |   conductor |
  Desverney, Bertha |   composer |
  Dewitty, Virginia Carrington (b. 1911) |   composer |
  Dickerson, Roger Donald (b. 1934) |   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 |
  Dubose, Tougee (b. 1893 d. 1971) |   composer |
  Duncan, John (b. 1913 d. 1975) |   composer, college professor |
  Dyett, Walter Henri (b. 1901 d. 1969) |   teacher, bandmaster |
  El-Dabh, Halim (Abdul Messiah) (b. 1921) |   composer |
  Elam, Ulysses (b. 1896) |   composer |
  Elie, Justin (b. 1883 d. 1931) |   conductor, composer |
  Espinosa, Federico (b. 1820 d. 1872) |   piano, composer |
  Euba, Akin (b. 1935) |   composer, university professor |
  Eubanks, Rachel Amelia (b. 1922) |   composer, administrator |
  Evanti, Lillian (b. 1890 d. 1967) |   soprano |
  Fiberesima, Adam (b. 1926) |   composer |
  Fischer, William Samuel (b. 1935) |   arranger, composer |
  Forster, Estelle Ancrum (b. 1887) |   composer |
  Fox, Frederick Alfred (b. 1931) |   composer, lighting designer |
  Frazier, James (b. 1940 d. 1985) |   conductor |
  Fuller, Oscar Anderson (b. 1904) |   music educator |
  Furman, James (b. 1937 d. 1989) |   composer, music educator |
  Garcia, Jose Mauricio Nunes (b. 1767 d. 1830) |   composer, organ |
  Garcia, Juan Francisco (b. 1892 d. 1974) |   composer |
  Gbeho, Phillipp |   composer |
  Gillum, Ruth Helen (b. 1906 d. 1991) |   piano, educator |
  Gregory, Percy Lloyd (b. 1934 d. 1991) |   music educator, piano |
  Hackley, Emma Azalia (b. 1867 d. 1922) |   soprano, concert singer |
  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 |
  Hall, Purnell F. (b. 1890) |   composer |
  Hancock, Eugene Wilson (White) (b. 1929 d. 1994) |   music educator, organ |
  Hare, Maud Cuney (b. 1874 d. 1936) |   writer, piano |
  Harris, Ethel Ramos (b. 1908) |   piano, composer |
  Harris, Howard C. (b. 1940) |   conductor, arranger |
  Harris, Robert Allen (b. 1938) |   piano, music educator |
  Hayes, Joseph C. (b. 1920) |   composer, music educator |
  Hayes, Roland (b. 1887 d. 1976) |   tenor, vocals |
  Hayre, Carlos |   composer |
  Herbison, Jeraldine Saunders (b. 1941) |   violin, music educator |
  Hicks, Roy Edward (b. 1931 d. 1990) |   composer, arranger |
  Hill, Danny Gloucester |   composer |
  Holloway, Carrie Beatrice (b. 1930) |   composer |
  Holmes, Gregory (b. 1960) |   composer |
  Holmes, Robert (b. 1934) |   composer |
  Holt, Nora Douglas (b. 1885 d. 1974) |   journalist, critic |
  Jackson, Ambrose C. (b. 1940) |   composer, conductor |
  Jacobs, Clarence (b. 1909) |   composer |
  James, Willis Laurence (b. 1900 d. 1966) |   music educator, violin |
  Jeanty, Occide (b. 1860 d. 1936) |   military bandmaster |
  Jeffers, Jack (b. 1928) |   composer |
  Jenkins, Ella (b. 1924) |   composer, singer |
  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 |
  Jones, Calvin (b. 1929) |   trombone, string bass |
  Kalanzi, Benny (b. 1938) |   composer |
  Kay, Ulysses (Simpson) (b. 1917 d. 1995) |   composer |
  Kebede, Ashenafi (b. 1938) |   ethnomusicologist, composer |
  Kennedy, Matthew Washington (b. 1921) |   music educator |
  Kerr, Thomas Henderson (b. 1915 d. 1988) |   college professor, composer |
  King, Betty Jackson [Betty Lou] (b. 1928 d. 1994) |   music educator, composer |
  Kjos, Neil (a. 1974) |   composer |
  Ladipo, Duro (b. 1931) |   writer, composer |
  Lambert, Lucien Leon Guillaume (b. 1858 d. 1945) |   composer, piano |
  Lamothe, Ludovic (b. 1882 d. 1954) |   composer, piano |
  Lara, Kenneth (b. 1940) |   composer |
  Larue, Earl |   arranger |
  Lawrence, William (b. 1895 d. 1981) |   accompanist, singer |
  Layne, Maude Wanzer (b. 1899 d. 1951) |   music educator, composer |
  Lee, William F. (a. 1971) |   composer |
  Lewin, Olive |   composer |
  Lindsay, Andrades |   composer |
  Lindsey, Roy Howard (b. 1926) |   composer |
  Lloyd, Charles (b. 1948) |   composer, piano |
  Logan, Wendell (Morris) (b. 1940) |   composer, music educator |
  Lovinggood, Penman (b. 1895) |   writer, singer |
  Lowe, Sammy [Samuel Milton] (b. 1918) |   trumpeter, arranger |
  Makebe, Miriam [Zenzile] (b. 1932) |   folksinger, vocals |
  Margetson, Edward Henry (b. 1891 d. 1962) |   composer |
  Marley, Bob (b. 1945 d. 1981) |   entertainer, reggae musician |
  McCall, Maurice Henderson (b. 1943) |   composer, music educator |
  McDaniel, William Foster (b. 1940) |   arranger, composer |
  McFarland, Ollie (a. 1971) |   composer |
  McLin, Edward M. (b. 1928) |   composer |
  McLin, Lena Johnson (b. 1928) |   music educator, choir conductor |
  Medley, Phil |   arranger, composer |
  Mells, Herbert Franklin (b. 1909 d. 1956) |   music educator, composer |
  Merrifield, Norman Lavelle (b. 1906) |   composer, arranger |
  Merriwether, Roy D. |   composer |
  Mesquita, Jose Joaquim Emirico Lobo (b. 1746 d. 1805) |   composer, organ |
  Mikell, Francis Eugene (b. 1885 d. 1932) |   bandmaster |
  Miller, James (b. 1907) |   composer |
  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 |
  Moore, William Howard (b. 1934) |   piano, choral director |
  Morgan, William Astor (b. 1890) |   composer, teacher of piano and theory |
  Morris, Garrett |   cast, composer |
  Morris, Robert (b. 1941) |   composer, educator |
  Morrison, George Sumner (b. 1891 d. 1974) |   bandleader |
  Mosley, J. Orville B. (b. 1909) |   composer |
  Mota, Antonio Manso (b. 1732 d. 1812) |   musician |
  Nelson, Kalvert Jalalu (b. 1951) |   composer |
  Neves, Ignacio Parreiras (b. 1730 d. 1794) |   composer, singer |
  Nketia, Kwabena J.H. (b. 1921) |   ethnomusicologist |
  Norman, Ruth (b. 1927) |   concert pianist, lecturer |
  Nzewi, Emeka Meki (b. 1938) |   ethnomusicologist, university professor |
  Ofori, A. Twumasi-Ankra |   songwriter |
  Ogunde, Hubert |   composer |
  Okelo, Anthony |   composer |
  Olatunji, Michael Babatunde (b. 1920) |   folk music drummer |
  Owens, Robert Lee (b. 1925) |   composer, piano |
  Parker, Reginald Nathaniel (b. 1929 d. 1970) |   organ, teacher |
  Pena Morell, Esteban (b. 1894 d. 1939) |   folklorist, composer |
  Perkinson, Coleridge-Taylor (b. 1932) |   composer, dance arranger |
  Perry, Julia (Amanda) (b. 1924 d. 1979) |   composer, conductor |
  Perry, Zenobia Powell (b. 1914) |   piano, composer |
  Peterson, Oscar (Emmanuel) (b. 1925) |   piano, pianoforte |
  Pinto, Luiz Alvares (b. 1719 d. 1789) |   composer, poet |
  Price, John Elwood (b. 1935) |   composer, piano |
  Ranglin, Ernest (b. 1933 a. 1959) |   guitar |
  Republicano, Assis (b. 1897 d. 1960) |   composer, conductor |
  Rhodes, William Andrew |   composer |
  Rivers, Clarence Joseph (b. 1931) |   composer of sacred music, priest |
  Roberts, Howard Alfred (b. 1924) |   choir conductor, music director |
  Rocha, Francisco Gomes (b. 1746 d. 1808) |   composer, singer |
  Roldan, Amadeo (b. 1900 d. 1939) |   composer, violin |
  Rolon, Zenon (b. 1856 d. 1902) |   composer |
  Roxbury, Ronald Marle (b. 1946 d. 1986) |   composer, instrumentalist |
  Russell, George (Allan) (b. 1923) |   composer, theorist |
  Saint-Georges, Joseph Boulogne (b. 1739 d. 1799) |   composer, violin |
  Sancho, Ignatius (b. 1729 d. 1780) |   composer |
  Schuyler, Philippa Duke (b. 1932 d. 1967) |   piano, composer |
  Simango, Kamba |   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 |
  Sobrinho, Jose Gonzaga |   composer |
  Sowande, Fela [Olufela] (b. 1905 d. 1987) |   composer, organ |
  Stevenson, Willie Belle (b. 1904) |   musician author, piano |
  Talley, Sonoma Carolyn (b. 1902) |   composer |
  Tatum, James (b. 1931) |   piano, soprano saxophone |
  Taylor, Billy [William Edward] (b. 1921) |   piano, music educator |
  Taylor, Maude Cummings (b. 1897 d. 1984) |   composer, teacher |
  Thomas, Carlette Catherine |   composer |
  Thomas, Ellen Virginia Carrington (b. 1897) |   composer |
  Thompson, Alma (b. 1912) |   composer, lyricist |
  Tillis, Frederick Charles (b. 1930) |   composer, administrator |
  Tindley, Charles Albert (b. 1851 d. 1933) |   minister, composer of gospel hymns |
  Turkson, Ato Alphonso (b. 1933) |   composer |
  Tyler, Jesse Gerald (b. 1879 d. 1938) |   piano, composer |
  Tyler, Robert (a. 1990) |   composer |
  Upshure, Luke (b. 1885) |   composer |
  Volel, Emanuel |   composer |
  Volel, Emile |   composer |
  Walker, George Theophilius (b. 1922) |   banjo, composer |
  Whalum, Wendell Phillips (b. 1931 d. 1987) |   music educator, choral director |
  White, Andrew Nathaniel (b. 1942) |   saxophone, composer |
  White, Don Lee (b. 1930) |   organ, choral director |
  White Lafitte, Jose (Silvestre de los Dolores) (b. 1836 d. 1918) |   violin, composer |
  Williams, Julius Penson (b. 1954) |   composer, conductor |
  Wilmoth, Frederick (b. 1896 d. 1973) |   composer |
  Wilson, Olly (Woodrow) (b. 1937) |   composer, trombone |
  Wonder, Stevie (b. 1950) |   composer, harmonica |
  Work, Frederick Jerome (b. 1880 d. 1942) |   composer, scholar |
  Work, John Wesley (b. 1873 d. 1925) |   composer, tenor |
  Work, Julian C. (b. 1910) |   arranger, composer |