Black classical musicians and composers, 1500-2000 /
[Book]
Rodreguez King-Dorset.
Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2019]
v, 201 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Background : the development and importance of black music London -- John Blanke (1500/1512) -- Ignatius Sancho (1729/1780) -- Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745/1799) -- Joseph Emidy (1775/1835) -- George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1779/1860) -- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875/1912) -- Rudolph Dunbar (1889/1988) -- Scott Joplin (1868/1917) -- Florence Beatrice Price (1887/1953) -- William Grant Still (1895/1978) -- Margaret Allison Bonds (1913/1972) -- Twentieth-century African American composers of classical music (1900/2000).
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"Covering the lives and works of such composers as Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Scott Joplin and Margaret Alison Bonds, this book examines the black classical music legacy with profiles of key artists who made valuable contributions that impacted classical music from the 16th through the 21st century"--