Supporting Diversity in the Music Experience
This guide provides resources that support diversity within the music experience at St. Olaf.
- Music from Around the World
- African Musicians
- African American and Black Musicians
- Asian Musicians
- Australasian and Pacific Musicians
- Latin American and Caribbean Musicians
- Native American Musicians
- Woman Musicians
- LGBTQIA+ Musicians
- Database for Historically Underrepresented Composers
Research and Instruction Librarian for Music & Fine Arts
Recent Publications about LGBTQIA+ Musicians
Ethnomusicology, Queerness, Masculinity
Available online.Queer Voices in Hip Hop
Available online.
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Overviews
The Oxford Handbook of Music and Queerness
Available at Carleton.Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity
Available in print from Carleton.Queering the Pitch : The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology
Call Number: ML55 .Q44 2006Available in print and online.
Score Anthologies
Anthology of New Music: Anthology of new music : Trans and Nonbinary Voices
Call Number: M1619 .A586 2021 v.1ISBN: 9781949614084Available in print.
Find Research and Repertoire -- Oxford Bibliographies
Oxford Bibliographies provides bibliographies on a wide range of research topics, including:
Find Repertoire -- Online Resources
- Karen's Giant Spreadsheet of Composer Diversity Websites -- a list of 60+ websites Karen consults when selecting new music by composers from historically underrepresented groups; please email Karen if you have suggestions of new sites to add or if links are broken.
Some of the sites Karen consults frequently from this spreadsheet include:
- Institute for Composer Diversity -- click the "search" button at the top to access their databases for composers, art songs, choral works, band works, orchestral works, and more.
- Diversity in Brass Music from Last Row Music -- lists of repertoire by woman composers and by Black composers
- No Broken Links -- Google spreadsheets for woodwind repertoire by composers from historically underrepresented groups
- Sphinx Catalogs -- music for strings by Latin American composers
- A Seat at the Piano -- piano repertoire by BIPOC and woman composers
- Music By Black Composers -- repertoire lists of music by Black composers, currently strongest in string repertoire; see also their directories of living and historic Black composers
- SongHelix -- originally designed to track art songs by topic, it now also permits searching by composer identities
- Alex Shapiro's Programming Resources -- includes pages on woman composers, LGBTQIA2s Composers, and Black, Latino, Asian, and Indian composers
Useful Links
- Cumulative LGBTQ Music BibliographyCompiled by musicologists; last updated in 2023.
- Canadian Queer+ Classical Musician DatabaseA list of conductors, composers, and performers, who self-identify as Queer+ and live or work in Canada.
- Last Updated: Sep 25, 2024 2:15 PM
- URL: https://libraryguides.stolaf.edu/diversityinthemusicexpereince
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