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Genre/Form: | Biographies Bio-bibliography Dictionaries Bio-bibliography Dictionaries Biography Dictionaries Biographies Dictionnaires anglais |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Samuel A Floyd; Columbia Center for Black Music Research |
ISBN: | 1884964273 9781884964275 |
OCLC Number: | 871326184 |
Notes: | Contents: v.1, Abrams-Jenkins ̲v.2, Johnson-Work Vol. 1. Abrams-Jenkins |
Awards: | Commended for Dartmouth Medal (Reference Works) 2000 |
Description: | 2 bd. : illustrations ; 28 cm |
Responsibility: | ed.: Samuel A. Floyd Jr. ; Columbia Center for Black Music Research |
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'a truly indispensable resource for both comprehensive music collections and libraries that need to cover a lot of ground with one purchase.' Library Journal 'International in scope, thoroughly researched, irresistibly readable, and monumental - these superlatives fit but do not do full justice to Floyd's International Dictionary of Black Composers. Its very thorough entries, many illustrated by a full-page black-and-white portrait, provide a detail-packed who's who biography and career summary, a thorough list of compositions organized by genre, and a bibliography of other types of works.' Rettig on Reference Read more...

