In an award winning biography, author Deirdre O'Connell pieces together two worlds of Blind Tom Wiggins: the exploitative world he lived in and the symphony inside his head.
Call Number: ML417.B3 O26 2009
In Music, Disability, and Society, Alex Lubet challenges the rigid view of technical skill and writes about music in relation to disability studies.
Terry Rowden considers the controversial nineteenth-century prodigy Blind Tom Bethune; blues singers and songwriters such as Blind Lemon Jefferson, who achieved an unprecedented degree of visibility and acceptance in the 1920s and '30s; spiritual and gospel musicians such as the Blind Boys of Alabama; celebrated jazz and rhythm and blues artists Art Tatum, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Ray Charles; and finally, perhaps the best known of all blind performers, Stevie Wonder.
Call Number: ML3556 .R68 2009
The resources on this page are not a comprehensive list of everything that is available in the library. To find more, try searching the catalog for a specific composer or performer or use search terms such as 'blind musicians,' 'disabled musicians,' 'deaf musicians,' or 'musicians with autism.'
These periodicals are more general in scope but often contain articles about accessibility in the arts.