Ruminations on the Center for Black Music Research

01 October 2008 This symposium took place in 1969 at Indiana University. Conceived, planned, and executed by musicologist Dominique-René de Lerma and some of his colleagues, this conference was the vanguard of black music studies. The other items in the group were two...

The Teacher's Guide to Recent Recordings of Music by Black Composers

01 October 1973 "Art Music by Negro Composers on Record" in Negro History Bulletin (Washington) XXXI, no. 4 (April, 1968) pp. 6-8; Dominique-René de Lerma's Black Music in Our Culture (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1970, pp. 181-199); James A. Standifer's Source...

Needs for Research in Black-American Music

01 October 1973 materials. A publication of the Black Music Center at Indiana University, Black Music in Our Culture edited by Dominique-René de Lerma (Kent, Ohio, 1970), represents an admirable step in the right direction. Also to be recommended is a report published...