“Roots and Branches” - Music - University of California, Irvine

• Arthur R. LaBrew, A Concert Tribute to Detroit’s Black Prima Donnas, 1989 (Michigan Music
Research Center, Inc.).
• Ellistine Perkins Holly, “Black Concert Music in Chicago, 1890 to the 1930s” in Black Music
Research Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Spring, 1990).
• Samuel Floyd, Jr., editor – Black Music In The Harlem Renaissance (1990)
• PBS “Great Performances” - Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman – Spirituals In Concert, 1991
• Elise K. Kirk – Musical Highlights From the White House. (1992)
• Rosalyn M. Story – And So I Sing: African-American Divas of Opera and Concert, 1993
• Samuel Floyd, Jr. – The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History From Africa To The
United States, (1995)
• Eric Ledell Smith – Blacks in Opera: An Encyclopedia of People and companies, 1897 – 1993,
(1995)
• Hansonia L. Caldwell – African American Music – A Chronology 1619 – 1995, (1996)
• Bette Y. Cox – Central Avenue – Its Rise and Fall (1890 – c. 1955), Exhibition catalog for The
Musical Renaissance of Black Los Angeles. (1996)
• The African American Art Song Alliance – www.darryltaylor.com/alliance - (founded by Darryl
Taylor in 1997)
• PBS “Great Performances” Documentary - Aida’s Brothers and Sisters: Black Voices in Opera,
2000 – profiles of pioneering African American singers;
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/aidas/resources.html
• The Georgia and Nolan Payton Archive of African Diaspora Sacred Music is established at CSU
Dominguez Hills to facilitate research and documentation of church and religious concert music
created and performed by the African Diaspora population of southern California. (2000)
• Andrea Broadwater – Marian Anderson: Singer and Humanitarian (2000)
• Allan Keiler – Marian Anderson: A Singer’s Journey (2000)
• Hansonia Caldwell – African American Music: Spirituals (2000; 2003)
• Willis C. Patterson, editor – The Second Anthology of Art Songs by Black American Composers
(2002)
• Helen Walker-Hill – From Spirituals to Symphonies: African-American Women Composers and
Their Music. (2002)
• Heritage and Legacy of Harry T. Burleigh – National conference at Edinboro University of
Pennsylvania (2003)
• William Banfield – Landscapes in Color: Conversations With Black American Composers.
(2003)
• Jeanine Wagner/Margaret Simmons – A New Anthology of Art Songs by African American
Composers (2004)