John Gray (Black Arts Research Center, Nyack, New York)

Submitted: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 20:00:06 -0500


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

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"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."

Selected publications by John Gray:

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.

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