Musical instruments, original sheet music, and portraits of musicians preserved in the Smithsonian remind us that American music flourishes within a wide variety of traditions drawn from our ...

An African American woman's voice ... Here she explains the importance of music in the Civil Rights Movement. One of the first things that's important when you think about freedom songs and ...

Both free and enslaved African American people in antebellum America composed and performed music in a wide variety of styles. Like their white counterparts, they listened to and performed the ...

The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature ... Carter, David C. (2009). The Music Has Gone Out of the Movement: Civil Rights and the Johnson Administration, 1965-1968. Chapel Hill: ...

American composer Rain Worthington taps into music as movement. Her violin duo A Dance of Two pulls you in, with flowing turns and subtle energy.

“What an enduring legacy legendary Asian American jazz ... Japanese gagaku court music into his compositions. His powerful bass work propelled many of the movement’s seminal albums.

In between was the New York premiere of John Corigliano’s Triathalon, a saxophone concerto that featured soloist Timothy ...

The first printed music in the United States appeared in 1690, and the AMRC's holdings of published and manuscript American sacred music begin very shortly after. Our roughly two thousand tune books ...