Glossary of contributors

St. Ambrose	Italian Bishop of Milan	340-397
Henri Frederic Amiel	Swiss poet and philosopher	1821-1881
Anonymous	Someone, somewhere
Louis Armstrong	American jazz trumpeter	1898-1971
Berthold Auerbach	German author	1812-1882
Joan Baez	American singer, songwriter, and activist	1941-
Sidney Bechet	Jazz clarinetist	1892-1959
Rev. Francis J. L. Beckman	Archbishop of Dubuque	1875-1948
Ludwig van Beethoven	German composer	1770-1827
Henri Bergson	French philosopher and Nobelist	1859-1941
Hector Berlioz	French composer	1803-1869
Leonard Bernstein	American composer and conductor	1918-1990
John Blacking	English ethnomusicologist	1928-1990
Pierre Boulez	French composer	1925-
Ruby Braff	American jazz cornetist	1927-
Gisèle Brelet	French musicologist and pianist	1916-1973
Sir Benjamin Britten	English composer	1913-1976
Big Bill Broonzy	American Blues singer	1893-1958
Earle Brown	American avant-garde composer	1926-
Sir Thomas Browne	English author and scholar	1605-1682
Jeff Buckley	American singer-songwriter	1966-1996
T-Bone Burnett	American singer-songwriter	1945-
William Burroughs	American Beat author	1914-1997
John Cage	American composer and philosopher	1912-1992
John Calvin	Swiss theologian	1509-1564
Joseph Campbell	Author and mythology specialist	1904-1987
Thomas Carlyle	Scottish historian	1795-1881
Emily Carr	Canadian painter	1871-1945
Rev. Albert Carter	American cleric
Pablo Casals	Spanish cellist	1876-1973
Ray Charles	Soul singer and pianist	1930-
Margaret Cheney	American writer	1955-
Chinese classic
Peter Clayton	Jazz scholar	1927-
Elizabeth Cohen	American acoustician	1954-
Ornette Coleman	Composer and jazz alto saxophonist	1930-
Alice Coltrane	American jazz pianist	1937-
Confucius	Chinese philosopher	551 BC- 479 BC
Willis Conover	American jazz DJ	1920-1996
Stu Cook	Member of Creedence Clearwater Revival	1945-
Christopher Cross	American songwriter	1951-
Alphonse Daudet	French novelist	1840-1897
Robertson Davies	Canadian novelist	1913-1995
Miles Davis	American composer and trumpeter	1926-1991
Thomas A. Dorsey	Pianist and gospel songwriter	1899-1993
Bob Dylan	American singer-songwriter	1941-
Albert Einstein	German physicist	1879-1955
Sir Edward Elgar	English composer	1857-1934
Mircea Eliade	Theologian	1907-1986
Duke Ellington	American pianist and bandleader	1899-1974
Mama Cass Elliot	American singer with The Mamas and the Papas	1941-1974
Brian Eno	British composer	1948-
David Ewen	American music writer	1907-1985
Steven Feld	American anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, jazz trombonist	1949-
Lita Ford	Heavy metal guitarist	1959-
Thomas Fuller	English clergyman and author	1608-61
Peter Gabriel	English pop singer-songwriter	1950-
Jerry Garcia	Singer & lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead	1942-1995
Erroll Garner	Jazz pianist and composer	1921-1977
Louis Ginsberg	Judaic scholar	1873-1953
Sir Eugene Goossens	English conductor and composer	1893-1962
Glenn Gould	Canadian pianist	1932-1982
Bill Graham	American concert promoter	1931-1991
Greek myth
Abel Green	American screenwriter	1900-1973
Germaine Greer	English author and feminist	1939-
Woody Guthrie	American folksinger and songwriter	1912-1967
Hafiz	Persian (Sufi) poet	1319-1389
Daryl Hall	Half of rock duo Hall and Oates	1948-
Coleman Hawkins	Jazz tenor saxophonist	1904-1969
Joseph Haydn	Austrian composer	1732-1809
Heinrich Heine	German poet	1797-1856
Ruth-Inge Heinze	German-American anthropologist	1919-
Jimi Hendrix	Rock guitar virtuoso	1942-1970
Kristin Hersh	American rock singer	1966-
Paul Hindemith	German composer	1895-1963
Alan Hovhaness	American composer	1911-
Gustav Holst	English composer	1874-1934
Arthur Honegger	French composer	1892-1955
Son House	Delta blues singer	1902-1988
Joseph Howard	American songwriter	1878-1961
Robert Hunter	American poet and lyricist	1938-
David Hykes	American composer and singer	1953-
Chrissie Hynde	Singer and songwriter - The Pretenders	1951-
Ice-T	American rapper	1958-
Ishaq Ibn Ibrahim	Persian-Arabic musician	767-850
William James	American philosopher	1842-1910
Billy Joel	American pianist and singer	1949-
Jo Jones	American jazz drummer	1911-1985
Quincy Jones	American jazz arranger, composer	1933-
Janis Joplin	Blues singer	1943-1970
Derrick de Kerckhove	Canadian media scholar	1944-
Ali Akbar Khan	Indian sarod master	1922-
Inayat Khan	Indian Sufi master	1882-1927
Ayatollah Khomeini	Iranian religious leader	1900-1989
Charles Kingsley	English clergyman and author	1819-1875
André Kostelanetz	American conductor	1901-1980
Bill Kreutzmann	Grateful Dead drummer	1946-
Charles W. Landon	Music educator	1846-?
Wanda Landowska	Pedagogue and harpsichordist	1879-1959
Suzanne Langer	American philosopher	1895-1985
Timothy Leary	Educator and LSD advocate	1920-1996
Madeleine L'Engle	American author	1918-
John Lennon	Singer and songwriter - The Beatles	1940-1980
Phil Lesh	Grateful Dead bassist	1940-
Jean François Le Sueur	French Composer	1760-1837
Martin Luther	German religious leader	1483-1546
Loretta Lynn	Country-Western singer-songwriter	1935-
Edward MacDowell	American composer and pianist	1861-1908
Gustav Mahler	Austrian composer	1860-1911
Bob Marley	Jamaican reggae musician	1945-1981
Rita Marley	Jamaican reggae musician, wife of Bob Marley, Member of I-Three
Ziggy Marley	Jamaican reggae musician, son of Bob and Rita Marley	1968-
Andrew Marvell	English poet and politician	1621-1678
Karl Marx	German social philosopher	1818-1883
Giuseppe Mazzini	Italian revolutionary	1805-1872
Les McCann	American jazz pianist	1935-
Sir Paul McCartney	Singer and composer - The Beatles	1942-
Marian McPartland	English jazz pianist and composer	1918-
Mencius	Chinese philosopher	371 BC-289 BC
Sir Yehudi Menuhin	American violinist	1916-1998
Bette Midler	American singer and actor	1945-
Steven Millhauser	American novelist	1943-
Molière	French dramatist	1622-1673
Airto Moreira	Brazilian percussionist	1941-
Jim Morrison	American rock singer - The Doors	1943-1971
MTV	Cable television music channel
Bruno Nettl	American ethnomusicologist	1930-
Friedrich Nietzsche	German philosopher	1844-1900
Anaïs Nin	Spanish-French novelist	1903-1977
Babatunde Olatunji	Nigerian drummer	1939-
Yoko Ono	Avante-garde performance artist	1933-
Joan Osborne	American singer and songwriter	1962-
Arthur O'Shaughnessy	English poet	1844-1881
Ignacy Paderewski	Polish composer and pianist	1860-1941
Niccolò Paganini	Italian violin virtuoso	1782-1840
Charlie Parker	Jazz alto saxophonist, composer	1920-1955
Constance Pierce
Plato	Greek philosopher	Circa 427 BC-347 BC
Iggy Pop	Singer and performance artist	1948-
Aristides Quintilianus	Music treatise author	Circa 200 AD
Vernon Reid	Member of Living Colour	1959-
Helmut Reinold	German musicologist	1925-
Little Richard	King of Rock and Roll and gospel preacher	1932-
Hans Richter	German conductor	1843-1916
Romain Rolland	French musicologist and Nobel prize novelist	1866-1944
Ned Rorem	American composer and author	1923-
Gioacchino Rossini	Italian opera composer	1792-1868
Arthur Rubinstein	Pianist	1887-1982
Dane Rudhyar	Composer and mystical philosopher	1895-1985
Rumi	Persian poet	1207-1273
Salman Rushdie	English author	1947-
John Ruskin	English art critic and author	1819-1900
Luigi Russolo	Italian futurist composer	1885-1947
Carlos Santana	American guitarist and singer	1947-
Artur Schnabel	Pianist and pedagogue	1882-1951
Marius Schneider	German ethnomusicologist	1903-1987
Percy A. Scholes	English writer on music	1877-1958
Arthur Schopenhauer	German author and philosopher	1788-1860
Robert Schumann	German composer	1810-1856
Albert Schweitzer	French missionary and Nobelist	1875-1965
Pete Seeger	American folksinger and activist	1919-
Sefer Chasidim	Chasidic text
Basil de Selincourt	Author and critic	1876-?
Shatapata Brahmana	Hindu religious text	172
George Bernard Shaw	Irish playwright and critic	1856-1950
Robert Fud Shaw	American bluesman	1908-
Paul Simon	American singer-songwriter	1941-
Leni Sinclair
Dame Edith Sitwell	English poet	1887-1964
Grace Slick	American rock singer - Jefferson Airplane	1939-
Kay Sloan
Huston Smith	Author, scholar of religious studies	1919-
Rudolph Steiner	Austrian philosopher	1861-1925
Karlheinz Stockhausen	German composer	1928-
Leopold Stokowski	American conductor	1882-1977
Igor Stravinsky	Russian-American composer	1882-1971
Sudanese tale
David Sudnow	American sociologist and jazz pianist	1938-
Sufi tale
Shinichi Suzuki	Japanese music educator
Cecil Taylor	American jazz pianist and composer	1933-
Nicola Tesl	American inventor [subject of Cheney quote]	1857-1943
James Son Thomas	American bluesman	1926-1977
Michael Tilson Thomas	American conductor	1944-
Henry David Thoreau	American philosopher and author	1817-1862
Leo Tolstoy	Russian novelist	1828-1910
Arturo Toscanini	Italian conductor	1867-1957
Pete Townshend	Guitarist for The Who	1945-
John Updike	American novelist	1932-
Edgard Varèse	French-American composer	1883-1965
Michael Ventura	American novelist and social critic	1945-
Alan Walker	English musicologist	1930-
Muddy Waters	American blues singer	1915-1983
Bob Weir	Guitarist for the Grateful Dead	1947-
Woodrow Wilson	28th President of the U.S.A.	1856-1924
Langdon Winner
Neil Young	American songwriter and guitarist	1945-

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