Composers featured: Michael Abels, H. Leslie Adams, Lettie Beckon Alston, Thomas J. Anderson, Dwight Andrews, Regina Harris Baiocchi, David Baker, William C. Banfield, Ysaye Maria Barnwell, Billy Childs, Noel DaCosta, Anthony Davis, George Duke, Leslie Dunner, Donal Fox, Adolphus Hailstork, Jester Hairston, Herbie Hancock, Jonathan Holland, Anthony Kelley, Wendell Logan, Bobby McFerrin, Dorothy Rudd Moore, Jeffrey Mumford, Gary Powell Nash, Stephen Newby, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Michael Powell, Patrice Rushen, George Russell, Kevin Scott, Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, Hale Smith, Billy Taylor, Frederick C. Tillis, George Walker, James Kimo Williams, Julius Williams, Tony Williams, Olly Wilson, and Michael Woods
|DedicationForeword
Preface: Black Beethovens: Essential Conversations with American Composers
In Loving Memory
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Laying the Foundations
Part 2: The Arrived and the Acknowledged, Part 1 (1922–1936)
Part 3: The Arrived and the Acknowledged, Part 2 (1937–1945)
Part 4: Perspectives on Spirituality, Jazz, and Contemporary Popular Languages
Part 5: The Composer as Conductor and Composer
Part 6: Generation X and Beyond (1950–1965)
Postlude: Extensions of the Tradition—Linkages and Canon
Index
About the Author
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