Jazz and Improvisation
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Why Jazz? : A concise guide
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Call Number: ML3506.W53 W59 2011ISBN: 9780199731183Publication Date: 2011-01-03 -
A Power Stronger Than Itself : the AACM and American experimental music
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Call Number: ML3508.8.C5 L48 2008ISBN: 9780226476957Publication Date: 2008-05-15 -
Thinking in Jazz : The infinite art of improvisation
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780226044521Publication Date: 2009-10-05 -
Leonard Bernstein and the Language of Jazz
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Call Number: ML410.B531 B23 2019ISBN: 9780252084164Publication Date: 2019-03-16 -
Making Jazz French : Music and modern life in inter-war Paris
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Call Number: ML3918.J39 J33 2003ISBN: 9780822331377Publication Date: 2003-08-05 -
That devilin' tune: A Jazz History, 1900-1950
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Call Number: ML3506.L69 D29 2001ISBN: 9781931388008Publication Date: 2001 -
A Chromatic Approach to Jazz Harmony and Melody
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Call Number: MT50.L62 C37 2019ISBN: 9783892210306Publication Date: 2015-10-01 -
Search and Reflect : A music workshop handbook
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Call Number: MT68 .S738 2007ISBN: 9781902775692Publication Date: 2007 -
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The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies
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Call Number: MT68.O97 L39 2016ISBN: 9780195370935Publication Date: 2016-09-19
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Creative Black Music at the Walker Art CenterEssays and videos of performances of African American experimental music at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, throughout the 1980's. Includes the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Anthony Braxton, and Curtis alum Julius Eastman.
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Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9781441122896Publication Date: 2010-10-14 -
What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists
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Call Number: ML3508 .P67 2002ISBN: 9780520232969Publication Date: 2002 -
The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
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Call Number: ML3508 .J38 1998ISBN: 9780231104494Publication Date: 1998 -
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Soundtrack to a Movement : African American Islam, jazz, and Black internationalism
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Call Number: ML3918.J39 T87 2021ISBN: 9781479871032Publication Date: 2021
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Resources listed below include research on race and racism in Western European classical music. This list also includes work in other areas such as gender and sexuality, class and labor, and dis/ability.
Black authors on Black musics and musicians
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The Heart of a Woman : the life and music of Florence B. Price
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ISBN: 9780252043239Publication Date: 2020-06-22 -
Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist
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Call Number: ML410.W179 A3 2009ISBN: 9780810869400Publication Date: 2009-07-09 -
Black Classical Musicians in Philadelphia : oral histories covering four generations
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Call Number: ML394 .M15 2009ISBN: 9780976735601Publication Date: 2009-11-01 -
It's Our Music Too: the Black Experience in Classical Music
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Call Number: ML3545 .H88 2016ISBN: 9780692781876Publication Date: 2016 -
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Soul on Soul : The life and music of Mary Lou Williams
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Call Number: ML417.W724 K47 2020ISBN: 9780252043604Publication Date: 2020 -
Music of Black Americans: a history
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Call Number: ML3556.S727 M9 1997ISBN: 0393038432Publication Date: 1997 -
A Power Stronger Than Itself : the AACM and American experimental music
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Call Number: ML3508.8.C5 L48 2008ISBN: 9780226476957Publication Date: 2008-05-15
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Negro Slave Songs in the United States
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Call Number: ML3556 .F58 1968ISBN: 9780806500904Publication Date: 1978 -
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African American Theater
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Call Number: M1503 .A258 1994ISBN: 0815313675Publication Date: 1994Musical plays; the music, principally spirituals and minstrel songs reproduced from various published sources, preceded by libretti. Contents: Out of bondage : (1876) -- Peculiar Sam, or, The underground railroad : (1879).
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I Put a Spell on You : the autobiography of Nina Simone
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Call Number: ML420.S598 A3 1992ISBN: 0679410686Publication Date: 1992-02-25
20th and 21st centuries
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New Music Decolonization in Eight Difficult StepsBy composer, performer, and scholar George E. Lewis
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The Race of Sound : listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music
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Call Number: ML3917.U6 E35 2019ISBN: 9780822368687Publication Date: 2019 -
Electronic and Experimental Music
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Call Number: ML1380.H64 E53 2016ISBN: 9781138792722Publication Date: 2015-10-26 -
Musicians in Transit : Argentina and the globalization of popular music
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Call Number: ML231.5.K37 M87 2017ISBN: 9780822362166Publication Date: 2017-01-03 -
Kick It : A social history of the drum kit
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Call Number: ebookISBN: 9780190683870Publication Date: 2020-02-11 -
Experimentalism Otherwise : the New York avant-garde and its limits
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Call Number: ML200.8.N5 P64 2011ISBN: 9780520268500Publication Date: 2011-04-04 -
A Power Stronger Than Itself : the AACM and American experimental music
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Call Number: ML3508.8.C5 L48 2008ISBN: 9780226476957Publication Date: 2008-05-15
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Search and Reflect : A music workshop handbook
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Call Number: MT68 .S738 2007ISBN: 9781902775692Publication Date: 2007
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The Rest Is Noise : Listening to the 20th Century
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Call Number: ML197 .R76 2007ISBN: 9780374249397Publication Date: 2007-10-16 -
Composers' Voices from Ives to Ellington : An oral history of American music
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Call Number: ML390 .P37 2005ISBN: 9780300106732Publication Date: 2005-10-20 -
Switched-On Bach
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Call Number: ML410.C326 K5 2019ISBN: 9781501320286Publication Date: 2019-10-31 -
The Queer Composition of America's Sound : gay modernists, American music, and national identity
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Call Number: ML200.5 .H83 2004ISBN: 0520241843Publication Date: 2004-10-18
18th and 19th centuries
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Orchestrating the Nation : the nineteenth-century American symphonic enterprise
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Call Number: ML1255.S516 O73 2016ISBN: 9780199358649Publication Date: 2015-11-06 -
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Blackness in Opera
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Call Number: ML1700.B53 A67 2014ISBN: 9780252080432Publication Date: 2014-10-30 -
Beethoven and Freedom
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Call Number: ML410.B415 C47 2017ISBN: 9780199769322Publication Date: 2017-08-15 -
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Beethoven in America
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Call Number: ML410.B415 B77 2011ISBN: 9780253357045Publication Date: 2011-10-27 -
New Worlds of Dvorak
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Call Number: ML410.D988 B42 2003ISBN: 9780393047066Publication Date: 2003-01-17 -
Sonata Mulattica
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Call Number: shelved in Recreational ReadingISBN: 9780393338935Publication Date: 2010-09-27 -
Feminine Endings : Music, gender and sexuality
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Call Number: ML82 .M38 1990ISBN: 9780816641895Publication Date: 2002-07-24
16th and 17th Centuries
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Black and Brown Composers in Baroque Latin America: An Introduction to the Repertoire"An introduction to and survey of repertoire by composers of color and native-born South American composers from Brazil, Peru, Cuba, Mexico, Guatemala, and Bolivia from 1600 to 1800, with an emphasis on villancicos, cantatas, and other works for voices and chamber ensemble. Discussion topics include African and native influences, programming ideas, and sourcing of scores and performance materials."
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Black and Brown Baroque Composers ListComposer list and bibliography for above presentation.
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Black Tudors
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Call Number: DA125.N4 K38 2017ISBN: 9781786071842Publication Date: 2017-10-05See the chapter, "John Blanke, the trumpeter."
