John Gray

Region of Interest

Africa

Primary Country of Residence

United States of America

Title

Director

Affiliation

Black Arts Research Center, Nyack, New York

Email

barc00@hotmail.com

Mailing Address

Black Arts Research Center
30 Marion Street
Nyack, New York 10960 USA

Websites

http://barc0.tripod.com/#top

Research Interests

"Founded in 1989, the Black Arts Research Center is an archival resource
center dedicated to the documentation, preservation and dissemination of
the African cultural legacy. Resources include some 2300 recordings,
cassettes and videotapes, 1300 books and journals, 500 clippings files and
a bibliographic database with more than 50,000 entries. These materials
now offer one of the richest resources ever on the Black presence in the
performing arts."

Publications

In Progress. BLACK MUSIC IN THE DIASPORA: A Bibliographical Guide.
Multi-volume work on Black sacred, folk and popular music idioms in the
African Diaspora.

1993. ACTION ART: A Bibliography of Artists' Performance from Futurism to
Fluxus and Beyond. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 343pp.

1991. FIRE MUSIC: A Bibliography of the New Jazz, 1959-1990. Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press. 515pp.

1991. "Bibliography." In BRAZILIAN RHYTHMS FOR DRUMSET by Duduka da
Fonseca and Bob Weiner. New York: Manhattan Music Publications;
distributed by DCI Music Video, pp. 78-79.

1991. AFRICAN MUSIC: A Bibliographical Guide to the Traditional, Popular,
Art, and Liturgical Musics of Sub-Saharan Africa. Westport, CT: Greenwood
Press. 499pp.

1990. "Bibliography." In AFRO-CUBAN RYTHMS FOR DRUMSET by Frank Malabe
and Bob Weiner. New York: Manhattan Music Inc.; distributed by DCI Music
Video (541 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10011), pp. 63-64.

1990. BLACKS IN FILM AND TELEVISION: A Pan-African Bibliography of Films,
Filmmakers, and Performers. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 496pp.

1990. BLACK THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE: A Pan-African Bibliography.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 409pp.

For more publications, see the list at: http://barc0.tripod.com/pl.html

Keywords

Black arts ; music ; performance ; theatre.