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link to catalog page WARING, Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians Author: Virginia Waring
Pub Date: February 2007

The life and music of “the man who taught America how to sing”   learn more...

link to catalog page WALKER-HILL, From Spirituals to Symphonies

From Spirituals to Symphonies

African-American Women Composers and Their Music

Author: Helen Walker-Hill
Pub Date: 2007

Exploding the assumption that black women's only important musical contributions have been in folk, jazz, and pop   learn more...

link to catalog page FORGACS, Gallus Dressler's Praecepta musicae poeticae Author: New Critical Text, Translation, Annotations, and Indices by Robert Forgács
Pub Date: June 2007

New scholarship on sixteenth-century composer and theorist Gallus Dressler   learn more...

link to catalog page NICHOLLS, John Cage Author: David Nicholls
Pub Date: November 2007

An introduction to the extraordinary life of John Cage, composer, writer, and artist   learn more...

link to catalog page JULES-ROSETTE, Josephine Baker in Art and Life

Josephine Baker in Art and Life

The Icon and the Image

Author: Bennetta Jules-Rosette
Pub Date: 2007

Beyond biography: a legendary performer’s legacy of imagery and symbolism   learn more...

link to catalog page ROSENBERG, The Music of Bill Monroe Author: Neil V. Rosenberg and Charles K. Wolfe
Pub Date: June 2007

The definitive study of Bill Monroe’s contributions to American and world music   learn more...

link to catalog page STONEMAN, Pressing On

Pressing On

The Roni Stoneman Story

Author: Roni Stoneman as told to Ellen Wright
Pub Date: April 2007

The tragicomic life story of one of America’s best-known country entertainers, told with warmth and honesty   learn more...

link to catalog page FINE, Soulstepping

Soulstepping

African American Step Shows

Author: Elizabeth C. Fine
Pub Date: January 2007

The first book to detail the history of stepping   learn more...

link to catalog page DAVID, Together Let Us Sweetly Live

Together Let Us Sweetly Live

The Singing and Praying Bands

Author: Jonathan C. David, with photographs by Richard Holloway
Pub Date: July 2007

A forgotten and beautiful African American folk tradition re-examined   learn more...

link to catalog page GEORGE, Where Did Our Love Go?

Where Did Our Love Go?

The Rise and Fall of the Motown Sound

Author: Nelson George
Pub Date: 2007

An inside look at Motown and its founder, available again   learn more...

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