Resources

Interested in learning more about the music of Black composers
from across the African diaspora and organizations ​that promote their work?

Check out some of our favorite resources below.

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Organizations

​Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians
BaobaoTree
Caribbean Culture Center African Diaspora Institute
​Classical Music in Color Podcast
​Gateways Festival
​Museum of African American History
National Association of Negro Musicians
National Museum of African American History
National Museum of African American Music
​playsightSOUND
​Rachel Barton Pine Foundation
​Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture & New York Public Library
Sphinx Organization
​Videmus, Inc
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Ensembles

African American Composer Initiative
Challenge the Stats
Chineke! Foundation
D-Composed
​The Dream Unfinished
​Flutronix
​Harlem Quartet
​Imani Winds
Opera Ebony
​Trilogy Opera Company
Quinteto Latino

composers & sheet music

African American Composers: New Voices, New Music
​African Diaspora Music Project
African Music Publishers
AfriClassical.com & ​AfriClassical Blog
​Ataria Editions - Chevalier de Saint-Georges
​Bassoon Music by Women, Non-Binary Composers, and/or Composers of Color ​
​​Black Composers Scores
10 Black Women Composers to Discover
​Chevalier de. Saint Georges
Cuarteto Latinoamericano - Virtual String Quartet Library
Ebony Music
​Fountanye Editions - Chevalier de Saint-Georges
​Institute for Composer Diversity
​International Opus
​Jamaican Composers
​List of Composers of African Descent
Music By Black Composers
Music for Viola by Underrepresented Composers
​Sphinx Foundation Resource List

References

​Aaron Horne's String, Woodwind, Keyboard and Brass Music of Black Composers series
Archives of African American Music and Culture
​Black Composers Series (audio)
​Black Music History Library
Black Opera Research Network (BORN)
​Bill Banfield's Musical Landscapes in Color
International Dictionary of Black Composers
​Eileen Southern's The Music of Black Americans
​Hildred Roach's Black American Music Past and Present
History of Black Classical Musicians
​Helen Walker-Hill's From Spirituals to Symphonies
Samuel A. Floyd, Jr's The Power of Black Music