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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 on Music of Latin America and the Caribbean
Christmas Music from Baroque Mexico
Available online.Flaco's Legacy: The Globalization of Conjunto
Available online.Sounding Latin Music, Hearing the Americas
Available online.
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Overviews
We have many more dictionaries and encyclopedias than those listed below. To find more reference sources, search Catalyst for your topic keywords and the phrase (dictionary OR encyclopedia) in parentheses, like this:
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
Call Number: Music Ref: ML100 .G16 1998Available online or in print.The Garland Handbook of Latin American Music
Call Number: Music Ref: ML199 .G36 2008Available in print.Latin American Classical Composers
Call Number: Music Ref: ML105 .F53 2016Available in print and online.
Score Anthologies
La voz latina : choral music from Latin America
Call Number: M1495 .V69 v.1La canción artística en América Latina : antología crítica y guía interpretativa para cantantes
Call Number: M1619 .C17Available in print.Anthology of Latin American and Iberian Art Songs by Women Composers
Call Number: M1619 .L378 v.1-2Available in print.Tangos, Milongas and Other Latin-American Dances for Solo Piano
Call Number: M30 .T36Available in print.
Find Research and Repertoire -- Print Resources
We have many more bibliographies than those listed below. Search for them in Catalyst by searching for your keywords and the word bibliography, as shown below.
Be sure to look at the dates of the bibliographies to see how recent they are. You may be able to find more recent sources by consulting our music databases or by looking at the online resources in the next box.
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
- Center for Iberian and Latin American Music at the University of California-RiversideThe tabs for Diagonal (their journal) and Links may be especially helpful.
- Digital Library of the CaribbeanOver 4 million pages of newspapers, maps, photographs, correspondence, scholarship, and teaching resources are freely available online at dLOC.
- Latin American Choral MusicSuzanne S. Tiemstra's website indexes mentions of Latin American choral composers in anthologies, discographies, biobibliographies, and other sources. Not a good site to begin your project, but if you are in the thick of Latin American choral research, this could be useful.
- Latin American Classical Sheet Music from Cayambis Music PressCayambis Music Press specializes in art music by Latin American composers.
- Sphinx Organization CatalogsThe Sphinx Organization, which supports string players from Black and Latino communities, maintains catalogs of music for string instruments by Latin American composers.
- Last Updated: Sep 25, 2024 2:15 PM
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