Underrepresented Composers: BIPOC Composers

The Queen Next Door offers fans a personal and unseen look at an extraordinary woman and her devotion to her family and her hometown Detroit. From performance rehearsals with James Brown to off-camera shenanigans while filming a music video with the Rolling Stones, from her first television special to her first time performing with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, to her last performance with her sisters at her father’s church and her son’s college graduation celebration, this book offers a new look at Aretha Franklin’s life.

A biography of the jazz trumpeter and singer known as Satchmo. Internationally renowned and instantly recognizable, Armstrong's contribution to the world of jazz remains an inspiration to musicians and listeners alike.

In this story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner, lead singer of the band Japanese Breakfast, tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the East Coast, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band, her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother's diagnosis of terminal cancer that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.

John Coltrane was a giant of the saxophone and a major composer. J. C. Thomas traces Coltrane's life and career from his North Carolina childhood through his apprenticeship with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Miles Davis, to its culmination in the saxophonist's classic quartet that played to steadily increasing audiences throughout America, Europe, and Japan.The author has drawn on the recollections of the people who knew Coltrane best--boyhood friends, band members, spiritual mentors, and the women who loved him. Chasin' the Trane is the story of a man who struggled against drug addiction, studied African and Eastern music and philosophy, and left behind the enduring legacy of a master musician who was also a beautiful man.

No singer has been more mythologized and more misunderstood than jazz legend Billie Holiday. This biography separates fact from fiction to reveal Lady Day in all stages of her short, tragic life.

The purpose of this collection of readings is to make available a representative number of authentic, contemporary documents illustrating the history of Black American music from the seventeenth century to the present time.

This book provides an introduction to the history of music in Latin America. Topics include the colonial period, sacred music in Spanish America, the rise of nationalism, and many others.

This book presents an overview of Arabic music throughout history and examines the artistic output of contemporary musicians, covering secular and sacred, instrumental and vocal, improvised and composed music. Typical musical structures are elucidated, and a detailed bibliography, a discography, and a guide to the Arabic alphabet for English speakers are also provided.

Terence Blanchard is one of today's foremost artists. He has recorded several award-winning albums and performed with the jazz elite. Through interviews with Blanchard, as well as more than thirty music and movie figures, including Branford Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Dave Holland, Dave Grusin, Kasi Lemmons, and Spike Lee, author Anthony Magro traces the unique career of this world-renowned musician.