A biographical study with historical overview, "Dedicated to Music" features the essay, "Composing The Community: Blacks Making and Teaching Music in Southern New Jersey", Robinson's narrative, detailing her extraordinary sixty-year career in music, and a dictionary with thirty-two profiles. Due to the subjects' birthplaces and careers, the scope extends to the midatlantic, midwestern, northeastern, and southern United States. Contains useful data for scholars of music, history, African American studies, women's studies, religion, sociology, and cultural anthropology.