From spirituals to symphonies
Subtitle: African-American women composers and their music
By: Helen Walker-Hill
Edition: 1st Illinois pbk.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Urbana [Ill.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780252074547
Subjects: Composers; Music by African American women composers; Compositrices; Biographies; Critique et interprétation; History and criticism; Biography
Notes: Originally published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-377), discographies (p. 378-380), and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: 1. Historical overview; title: 2. Undine Smith Moore (1904-89); title: 3. Julia Perry (1924-79); title: 4. Margaret Bonds (1913-72); title: 5. Irene Britton Smith (1907-99); title: 6. Dorothy Rudd Moore (b. 1940); title: 7. Valerie Capers (b. 1935); title: 8. Mary Watkins (b. 1939); title: 9. Regina Harris Baiocchi (b. 1956); title: Conclusion; title: Appendix. Selected list of composers; title: Selected bibliography/discography; title: Index.