Composers
The Dictionary of Black Composers, edited by Samuel A. FLoyd, Jr., is an
excellent starting point for information about African-American composers
Music Reference ML 105 .I5 1999 2 vols.
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Dawson, William
The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance: Aesthetic Philosophy
In the 1920s, artists and writers in Harlem produced works of art celebrating the African-American experience and culture. Although jazz was taking hold in Harlem at the time, spirituals were more important to composers of the time than jazz idioms. Howard University professor of philosophy, Alain LeRoy Locke, one of the most influential writers of the time wrote about the arts and about music:
- The New Negro: An Interpretation, a collection of essays edited by Alain LeRoy Locke (1925)
E 185.82 L75 1968b - The Negro and His Music, by Alain LeRoy Locke (1936)
ML 3556 .L6 N4 1968
Ebook online
Music and the Harlem Renaissance
- Harry T. Burleigh: From the Spiritual to the Harlem Renaissance, by Jean Snyder
ML 410 .B97 S69 2016 - The New Negroes and their Music: The Success of the Harlem Renaissance, by Jon Michael Spencer
ML 3556 .S77 1997 - Black Music in the Harlem Renaissance, a Collection of Essays, edited by Samuel A. Floyd
ML 3556.8 .N5 B6 1993 - Deep River: Music and Memory in Harlem Renaissance Thought, by Paul Allen Anderson
ML 3556 .A53 2001
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual Life -- 20th Century
See also: "Harlem Renaissance" in The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition (Log in required from off campus)