Sunday, October 19, 2008

BlackPast.org, 'An Online Reference Guide to African American History', Has 275 Writers

[John Blanke, Musician at the Court of Henry VIII; National Archives of the United Kingdom]

I am proud to be a contributor to BlackPast.org, An Online Reference Guide to African American History. It is a project of Dr. Quintard Taylor, the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History at the University of Washington, Seattle. He has just issued an update to contributors. “Please excuse this informal mass mailing. I have not communicated with you in some time and I wanted to take this opportunity to update you on another BlackPast.org milestone. Sometime on Tuesday (October 14) the website passed the 750,000 mark in visitors for 2008. We also marked 2,703,027 page views. Over 100 nations were represented among the visitors.” “These statistics certainly prove that BlackPast.org has become a valuable and well used resource. That success is the direct result of your contributions to the website. BlackPast.org now has over 275 contributors. I hope you will continue to write for BlackPast.org and promote it in all the ways you deem appropriate. Thank you, again, for your help.”

My contributions are an overview essay, “Black Composers and Musicians in Classical Music History”; and individual biographical profiles on John Blanke (16th C.); James DePreist (1936-); Paul Freeman (b. 1936-); José Mauricio Nunes Garcia (1767-1830); Joseph de Bologne, Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799); Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780); and Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins (1849-1908). Each of the artists is also featured at AfriClassical.com






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