White and Dead – That’s What Many Think of When Talking About Composers, that’s just one of the many clichés that need to be broken when discussing contemporary music in 2025. Enter Harald Kisiedu. The musicologist is known for his groundbreaking work on underexplored topics. As co-editor of the book Composing While Black (Wolke Verlag, 2023), he brings unique new perspectives on contemporary Afrodiasporic composers active from 1960 to today. This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores sound and conceptual art, digital intermedia, orchestral, chamber, instrumental, and electroacoustic music, as well as opera. It presents Afrodiasporic contemporary music as an intercultural,…