Singing Down the Barriers: Encouraging Singers of All Racial Backgrounds to Perform Music by African American Composers

Authors

Caroline Helton, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Emery Stephens, Wayne State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This chapter investigates the barriers faced by singers of all racial backgrounds when performing spirituals and African American art songs and suggests ways to eliminate those barriers.

Disciplines

Music

Recommended Citation

Helton, C. and Stephens, E. (2007), Singing down the barriers: Encouraging singers of all racial backgrounds to perform music by African American composers. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007: 73–79. doi: 10.1002/tl.288

Comments

This is the publisher's (Wiley-Blackwell) PDF which previously appeared in New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Volume 2007, Issue 111, pg 73–79. Also available at the publisher's website at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tl.288/abstract.