Top 10 Best "African American Art Work" Books

Monuments

Judith Dupre

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A New Anthology of Art Songs By Contemporary African American…

African American Art Work

A New Anthology of Art Songs By Contemporary African American Composers

The art song-a delicate and inspiring blend of music and poetry-has been performed by singers and pianists and appreciated by audiences around the world for more than two hundred years. While collections of art songs abound, this welcome volume and its accompanying compact disc make readily available the contributions of contemporary African American composers to the popular genre.

Including thirty-nine pieces for voice and piano created since 1968 by eighteen artists, Art Songs by Contemporary African American Composers navigates a varied musical terrain from classical European traditions to jazz and spirituals. With nearly half of the featured songs composed by women and with others by lesser-known and emerging composers, this important collection offers a diverse, representative sampling of African American art songs and works to secure the places of these songs and artists in the canon of contemporary American music.

Selected by Margaret R. Simmons and Jeanine Wagner, prolific and celebrated performers who have presented recitals throughout the world featu...

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Collecting African American Art

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No Space Hidden

Grey Gundaker
Judith McWillie

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A Life's Design

Charles Harrison

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Performing the Word

Fahamisha Patricia Brown

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Recovering the Black Female Body

Michael Bennett
Vanessa D. Dickerson

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Black Is the New Green

Leonard E. Burnett Jr.
Andrea Hoffman

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I, Too, Sing America

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Diamond Revelation

Sheila Copeland

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Anyone who trades liberty for security
deserves neither liberty nor security!

~Benjamin Franklin


Be the change you want to see in the world.

~Mahatma Ghandi

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

~Mahatma Ghandi

Gathered Visions

Robert L. Hall

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African-American Art (Oxford History of Art)…

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