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Kika Kila by John W. Troutman
ISBN: 9781469627922
"Using rich musical and historical sources, including interviews with musicians and their descendants, a historian and steel guitarist provides the complete story of how the Hawaiian steel guitar transformed not only American music but the sounds of modern music throughout the world."
Encyclopedia of African American Music [3 Volumes] by Tammy L. Kernodle (Editor); Horace Maxile (Editor); Emmett G. Price (Editor)
ISBN: 9780313341991
"Over 500 in-depth entries by more than 100 scholars on a vast range of topics such as genres, styles, individuals, groups, and collectives as well as historical topics such as the music of the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and numerous others."
Women Opera Composers: Biographies From the 1500s to the 21st Century by Mary F. McVicker
ISBN: 9780786495139
"Women were singers and patrons, of course, but from opera's beginnings in Renaissance Italy, they were also opera composers and librettists."