Horace Clarence Boyer

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Dr. Horace Clarence Boyer (July 28, 1935 – July 21, 2009) was one of the foremost scholars in African-American gospel music.

Life and career

Boyer received a B.A. from

He served as guest curator of musical history at the Smithsonian Institution from 1985 to 1986, and was Distinguished Scholar-at-Large at Fisk University in 1986 and 1987, where he conducted the famed Fisk Jubilee Singers.^[4] He was an advisor on gospel music to the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and was editor of the 1993 edition of the African American hymnal, Lift Every Voice and Sing, II. Horace Boyer published over 40 articles on gospel music in publications that included the Music Educators Journal, the Black Music Research Journal and Black Perspectives in Music.

He was the 2009 recipient of the

Additional references

• Boyer, Horace Clarence. How Sweet the Sound.
  ISBN 1-880216-19-1
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• Reagon, Bernice Johnson. We'll Understand It Better By and By: Pioneering African American Gospel Composers.
  ISBN 1-56098-167-9
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• PBS biography
• WNCU obituary
• UMass Amherst obituary
• Interview with Horace Clarence Boyer, Musicologist (2000), Jubilee Singers Interviews Collection, American Archive of Public Broadcasting