W.C.Handy
1873-1958, Alabama, composer
Mamie Smith
1883-1946, singer
Gertrude “Ma” Rainey
1886-1939, singer
Bessie Smith
1894-1937, blues singer
Blind Lemon Jefferson
1897-1929, singer
Robert Johnson
1911-1938, singer
Stephen C. Foster
1826-1864, composer
Jerome Kern
1885-1945, composer
Richard Rodgers
1902-1979, composer
Cole Porter
1891-1964, composer
George Gershwin
1898-1937, composer
Aaron Copland
1900-1990, composer
Ruth Crawford Seeger
1901-1953, composer
Edgard Varese
1883-1965, composer
Henry Cowell
1897-1965, composer
John Cage
1912-1992, composer
Silvestre Revueltas
1899-1940, violinist and composer
William Grant Still
1895-1978, composer
Ella Fitzgerald
1917-1996, swing-era vocalist
Bill Monroe
1911-1997