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 |