Foreword

Preface: Black Beethovens: Essential Conversations with American Composers

In Loving Memory

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: Laying the Foundations

Part 2: The Arrived and the Acknowledged, Part 1 (1922–1936)

• H. Leslie Adams
• Thomas J. Anderson
• David Baker
• Noel DaCosta
• George Russell
• Hale Smith
• Frederick C. Tillis
• George Walker

Part 3: The Arrived and the Acknowledged, Part 2 (1937–1945)

• Adolphus Hailstork
• Wendell Logan
• Dorothy Rudd Moore
• Olly Wilson

Part 4: Perspectives on Spirituality, Jazz, and Contemporary Popular Languages

• Dwight Andrews
• Ysaye Maria Barnwell
• Billy Childs
• George Duke
• Jester Hairston
• Herbie Hancock
• Stephen Newby
• Michael Powell
• Billy Taylor
• Tony Williams
• Michael Woods

Part 5: The Composer as Conductor and Composer

• Leslie Dunner
• Bobby McFerrin
• Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
• Patrice Rushen
• Kevin Scott
• Julius Williams

Part 6: Generation X and Beyond (1950–1965)

• Michael Abels
• Lettie Beckon Alston
• William C. Banfield
• Regina Harris Baiocchi
• Anthony Davis
• Donal Fox
• Jonathan Holland
• Anthony Kelley
• Jeffrey Mumford
• Gary Powell Nash
• Evelyn Simpson-Curenton
• James Kimo Williams

Postlude: Extensions of the Tradition—Linkages and Canon

Index

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