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Top 10 Best "African American Musicians" Books

#10

From Jazz to Swing

Thomas J. Hennessey

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Navigators

Terry Jenoure

African American Musicians

Navigators

Navigators vividly brings to life the stories of twelve African American artists who teach music, dance, and visual arts at colleges and universities that have traditionally been viewed as White institutions. In this captivating and moving book, Theresa Jenoure shows that there's a great deal to be learned from the experience of these teachers. She explores their visions and callings as creative artists and how they function in higher education. In so doing, she presents relevant ideas about the development and sustenance of creativity.

African American artists have played a monumental role in the evolution of American culture. Mainstream artists from Picasso to Martha Graham to the Rolling Stones have dipped into the wellsprings and drawn inspiration from the creative expressions of African Americans throughout the nation's history. In informal but profound ways, they have been models and mentors, exerting tremendous leadership in the arts but have had little influence over the formal study of their knowledge in schools.

As the twelve teachers' stories unfold...

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#9

African-American Music

Earl L. Stewart

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#8

A Pioneering Twentieth Century African-American Musician

Jeffery Ames

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#7

Blues Is A Feeling, The

James Fraher

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#6

Great African American Musicians

Lemuel
Jr. Berry

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#5

What Is This Thing Called Jazz?

Eric Porter

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#4

African American Musicians (Black Stars)

Eleanora E. Tate

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#3

Africana

Kwame Anthony Appiah
Henry Louis Gates

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#2

Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians (The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Black Music)

Eileen Southern

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Louis Armstrong

Simple text and illustrations describe the life and accomplishments of the jazz trumpeter who was nicknamed Satchmo. --This text refers to an alternate Library Binding edition.

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Louis Armstrong

Pat McKissack
Fredrick McKissack

African American Musicians
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Dedicated to Music

Henrietta Fuller Robinson
Carolyn Cordelia Williams

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