GIA Publications has listed a new music education resource designed to help band directors and educators diversify concert programming and curricula. The 196-page softcover volume, African American Composers in the Wind Band Tradition, was reported by GIA Publications in its current-year catalog.
The book traces wind band music by Black composers decade by decade from the 1940s to the present, with a catalog of composers and works. It also provides musical analysis, composer biographies, and pedagogical insights for five compositions by William Grant Still, Adolphus Hailstork, George Walker, Carlos Simon, and Omar Thomas.
Author Dakeyan Graham, a former Florida Teacher of the Year and conductor of the Alachua County Youth Orchestra, presents the content as accessible for classroom use and concert programming.
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