Paying Attention to Music and Baseball: Listening to the Savannah Bananas

13 May 2026 Allen, “It’s Easier to Move a Cemetery Than to Change a School,” Music Educators Journal 57, no. 1 (1970): 29-32; Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., et al., “The Center for Black Music Research Forum,” College Music Symposium 29 (October 1989): 151-157; Barbara...

Multi-Linear Continuity and "Songs to the Dark Virgin" by Florence Price [1888-1953]

01 May 2023 Abstract The poem “Songs to the Dark Virgin,” composed by Langston Hughes and included in his 1926 volume The Weary Blues, presents an obscure and complex text that seems to address an ambiguous second-person entity, the “Dark Virgin.” In this article...

Cultural Influences of Organ Music Composed by African American Women

01 June 2015 Cultural Influences on Organ Music Written By African American Women 1 Abstract In this paper, major events in African American history are described and contrasted with the history of organ music written by African American women in the twentieth- and...

Extensions to the Pedagogical Canon: Expanding Perspectives on William Grant Still and the Teaching Applications as Realized in the [i]Seven Traceries[/i]

17 August 2015 Abstract William Grant Still’s Seven Traceries (1940) is a set of piano pieces that exhibits a number of post-tonal materials and techniques such as octatonicism, extended tertian sonorities, dense chromaticism, and extensive motivic development....

Ruminations on the Center for Black Music Research

01 October 2008 14, no. 1 (1994): 75-84. Oja, Carol J., and Mark Tucker. “Mapping the Future of Black Music Research: A Talk with Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.” I.S.A.M. Newsletter (1990): 8-9. Southern, Eileen. Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians....

The Center for Black Music Research Forum

01 October 1989 Music, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill. Dena J. Epstein, Music Librarian Emeritus, University of Chicago Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., Director, Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College Philip Gossett, Professor of Music, University of...

Musical Performance and Scholarship in Higher Education

01 October 1981 the entire field of music, inspiring all musicians toward more quality and quantity in production. authors: Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. author_ids: 730 authors: Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. author_ids: 730

Music as a Creative Experience

01 October 1976 What is music? What does it require to understand music? To these questions one might answer, "Very basically, music is an aural art; to learn to understand it, one must study with one's ears." To further elaborate, one might say, "Using our ears,...

Productivity Models for Applied Music Professors

01 October 1978 Productivity Models for Applied Music Professors Written by Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. Burt K. Kageff, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale—Symposium Volume 18 The current heavy emphasis on scholarly productivity in American universities has generated...