american composers

Traces the life of the internationally-acclaimed musician and composer, Duke Ellington who helped popularize jazz music.

Biography of Stephen Foster, a nineteenth century American songwriter, whose songs, which include "Oh! Susanna" celebrate the rural South.

Focuses on the life and musical career of the composer who wrote a number of popular musicals and brought jazz into the realm of acceptable and respectable music.

Photographs and text present the biography of Woody Guthrie, who composed more than a thousand ballads and celebrated, in his songs and in his prose, the indomitable human spirit.

Contains brief biographies of ten American composers.