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Most material listed in this guide can be accessed through OHAM's finding aids in Archives at Yale. Click above to view the finding aids.

OHAM holds interviews with numerous African American classical musicians, including William Grant Still—the first African American composer to have an opera produced by the New York City Opera and to conduct a major American orchestra—and Anthony Davis, whose numerous works include the 1986 opera X, The Life and Time of Malcolm X and the music for the Broadway version of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. Also included in this list are the white composers and composers of color whose music draws inspiration from African American musical forms along with various indigenous folk traditions from across the world.