A comprehensive guide to artists and their best works. Includes timelines, essays, reviews, and a music dictionary. Genres include rock, country, jazz, blues, world, folk, rap, reggae, gospel, new age, and many sub-genres.
Offers a narrative account of the evolution of Western classical music by musicologist Richard Taruskin. Includes notes, bibliographies, and links to further readings.
MBC's mission includes: inspire Black students to begin and continue instrumental training ; make the music of Black composers available to everyone ; help to change the face of classical music through greater diversity.