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Article: Black Music Research Center Looks Beyond Jazz, Blues and Soul
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- Los Angeles Sentinel
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- January 6, 1994
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H. Vincent Price
Los Angeles Sentinel
01-06-1994
Black Music Research Center Looks Beyond Jazz, Blues and Soul.
Like old clothes hanging unused in closets for years, the music of Noble Sissle, Marion Cook, and Frank Johnson is being pulled out, dusted off, and given new life.
Their names may not be as recognizable as Dizzy Gillespie, James Brown or Ice-T. But decades earlier these and other black composers were creating music that helped shape American pop culture: show tunes, concert hall music, polkas and even waltzes from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Since 1983, the Center for Black Music Research at Chicago's Columbia College has helped to rescue the work of black composers from the ...