Resources

LIBRARIES & RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS

Archives of African American Music and Culture, Indiana University. Bloomington, IN.

Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Chicago. Chicago, IL.

Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, Temple University. Atlanta, GA.

George Walker Papers, Emory University. Atlanta, GA.

Helen Walker Hill ColLection, University of Colorado Boulder. Boulder, CO.

Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, NY.

Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY.

Vanderbilt Libraries, Heard Libraries, Vanderbilt University. Nashville, TN.

BOOKS

Abdul, Raoul. Blacks in Classical Music: A Personal History. Dodd, Mead & Company, 1977.

Baker, David N., et al. The Black Composer Speaks. Scarecrow Press, 1978.

Banfield, William C. Music Landscapes in Color: Conversations with Black American Composers. University of Illinois Press, 2023.

Baraka, Amiri. Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music University of California Press, 2009.

Floyd, Samuel A., et al. The International Dictionary of Black Composers. Vol. 1 & 2. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999.

Horowitz, Joseph. Dvořák’s Prophesy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Music. Norton & Company, 2021.

Levine-Packer, Renee & Leach, Mary Jane. Gay Guerrilla, Julius Eastman and His Music. University of Rochester Press, 2015.

Walker, George. Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist. Scarecrow Press, 2009.

Walker-Hill, Helen. From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and their Music. Greenwood Press, 2002.