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Article: Black music in the academy: the Center for Black Music Research.
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- September 1, 1998
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THE CENTER FOR BLACK MUSIC RESEARCH
The contributions of people of African descent to the history of Western music extend far into the past. The earliest artistic depictions of black musicians in Europe date back to the Middle Ages, and the earliest documented black composer is the sixteenth-century composer and theorist Vicente Lusitano, whose African heritage was discovered by scholar Robert Stevenson.(1) Information about African American contributions to art music, however, has been slow to reach the general consciousness, and despite ground-breaking studies by Eileen Southern(2) and Samuel A. Floyd Jr.,(3) the term "black music" continues to be associated almost ...