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Black Composers: A Guide to Resources at the Library of Congress

Biographies & Autobiographies

Read biographies and autobiographies of Black composers to enrich your knowledge and context about the music you perform, program, and research. These resources have call numbers that begin with ML (Literature about Music).

The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog, and can be used in the Performing Arts Reading Room. You can also search for them in your local institution's holdings or request inter-library loans.

Examples of Biographies & Autobiographies