THE IMPORTANCE OF STUDYING
AFRICAN-AMERICAN ART SONG
An essay by Darryl Taylor, DMA
APPENDIX
SOME AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMPOSERS OF ART SONG COMPOSER/PUBLISHER INFORMATION
Harry T. Burleigh, 1866 - 1949 CVR
Clarence Cameron White, 1880 - 1960 CF
R. Nathaniel Dett, 1882 - 1943 GS
Carl Diton, 1886 - 1962 EBM
Camille Nickerson, 1887 - 1982 LOC
Florence B. Price, 1888 - 1953 LOC/EBM/HP
Hall Johnson, 1888 - 1970 CF
Cecil Cohen, 1894 - 1967 EBM
William Grant Still, 1895 - 1978 WGS/EBM
Edward Boatner, 1898 - 1981 ECS
Frederick Douglass Hall, 1898 - 1982 LOC
William Dawson, 1899 - 1990 LOC
John W. Work, Jr., 1901 - 1967 EBM/ECS
Undine Smith Moore, 1904 - 1989 LOC/EBM/HP
Howard Swanson, 1907 - 1978 EBM/CF
Evelyn Pittman, b. 1910 LOC
Mark Fax, 1911 - 1974 EBM/LOC
Margaret Bonds, 1913 - 1972 EBM/LOC
John Duncan, 1913 - 1975 LOC
Edgar Rogie Clark, 1913 - 1978 EBM
Noah Ryder, 1914 - 1964 LOC
Zenobia Powell Perry, b. 1914 LOC
Thomas Kerr, 1915 - 1988 EBM/LOC
Ulysess Kay, 1917 - 1995 GS
George Walker, b. 1922 SM
Julia Perry, 1924 - 1979 HP/LOC
Hale Smith, b. 1925 EBM
Robert Owens, b. 1925 EBM
T.J. Anderson, b. 1928 ACA
Betty Jackson King, 1928 - 1994 HP/LOC
Lena McLin, b. 1929 NK
Noel DaCosta, b. 1930 EBM
Frederick Tillis, b. 1930 LOC
David Baker, b. 1931 EBM/LOC
Leslie Adams, b. 1932 ACA/EBM
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, b. 1932 EBM
Roger Dickerson LOC
Olly Wilson, b. 1937 EBM
Robert A. Harris, b. 1938 LOC
Wendell Logan, b. 1940 EBM
Charles Brown, b. 1940 EBM
Dorothy Rudd Moore b. 1941 ACA/EBM
Adolphus C. Hailstork, b. 1941 EBM
Wallace Cheatham, b. 1945 LOC
Charles Lloyd, Jr., b. 1948 EBM
William Banfield, b. 1961 LOC
Nkeiru Okoye, b. 1972
KEY TO PUBLISHER INFORMATION
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