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584:(José Manuel Jiménez Berroa), Cuba (1851–1917)
1215:Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982.
462:(William Christopher Handy), US (1873–1958),
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171:, Poland (1779–1860), violinist and composer
1206:International Dictionary of Black Composers
1026:, English-born composer of Jamaican descent
177:, US (born 1982/1983), pianist and composer
1114:(Bethune) or "Blind Tom", US (1849–1908)
807:(William Myles Nobles), US (1924–2005)
1268:Afrocentric Voices in Classical Music
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18:list of composers of African ancestry
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80:(Montague Ring), England (1866–1956)
667:, Portugal, born in the early 1500s
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888:, US (born 1948), jazz composer
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944:Chevalier de Saint-Georges
868:Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
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426:José Maurício Nunes Garcia
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117:, US, pianist, bandleader
90:Thomas Jefferson Anderson
898:Florence Beatrice Price
220:Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
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74:, Brazil (born 1947)
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606:J. Rosamond Johnson
600:James Price Johnson
576:Jose Julian Jiménez
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