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Ambolena Snow. An Afro-American Military Band Ballad [cover title]. By Lester Bodine, George Maywood

Ambolena Snow. An Afro-American Military Band Ballad [cover title]

Written by two white composers, this ragtime song first appeared in an illustrated newspaper supplement. For this supplement, a grotesque cover art illustration was used..... Read More about Ambolena Snow. An Afro-American Military Band Ballad [cover title

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Dizzy Gillespie Signed Photograph, Jazz Trumpeter and Composer. photographer Eddie Birch

Dizzy Gillespie Signed Photograph, Jazz Trumpeter and Composer.

Signed publicity photograph of Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993), showing him holding his iconic trumpet with its bell bent upward. Gillespie is noted for his bebop style..... Read More about Dizzy Gillespie Signed Photograph, Jazz Trumpeter and Composer

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Gillingham Family of Philadelphia, 1830s to 1840s-era Sheet Music Album of Fifty Compositions

Gillingham Family of Philadelphia, 1830s to 1840s-era Sheet Music Album of Fifty Compositions.

Of Philadelphia doctors and lawyers, and their love of music —that which they composed and that which they collected— during the 1830s and 1840s in..... Read More about Gillingham Family of Philadelphia, 1830s to 1840s-era Sheet Music Album of Fifty Compositions

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Let My People Live. [Original 16mm film for 1938 WPA Tuskegee Institute Movie]. Director Edgar...

Let My People Live. [Original 16mm film for 1938 WPA Tuskegee Institute Movie]

Original 16mm public health film starring an all-Black cast and directed at young African American audiences to encourage tuberculosis testing and treatment. In this drama..... Read More about Let My People Live. [Original 16mm film for 1938 WPA Tuskegee Institute Movie

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Mammy’s Hum-Tune. A Black Key Melody for Piano. Hermene Warlick Eichhorn

Mammy’s Hum-Tune. A Black Key Melody for Piano.

A “plantation song” or imitative Black American spiritual (“Roll on, ole Jordan…”) here used as a lullaby. The music was written by Hermene Warlick Eichhorn..... Read More about Mammy’s Hum-Tune. A Black Key Melody for Piano

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Guitarist and Singer Bo Diddley Jr. Publicity Agent’s Broadside]. S. Curt A. Barad, P Management

[Guitarist and Singer Bo Diddley Jr. Publicity Agent’s Broadside].

Publicity and concert booking promotional sheet for Bo Diddley Jr., “master blues and R&B guitarist and singer.” Born David Hill Jr., Diddley was given his..... Read More about Guitarist and Singer Bo Diddley Jr. Publicity Agent’s Broadside

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uh-huh. Recorded by B2K on Epic Records. Dreux Frédéric a. k. a. Lil' Fizz Traci C....

uh-huh. Recorded by B2K on Epic Records.

Sheet music with lyrics and guitar chords for the 2001 single “Uh-Huh” by the Black boy band B2K (Boys of the new Millennium). The song..... Read More about uh-huh. Recorded by B2K on Epic Records

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1887–1951, Collection of Hagerstown, Maryland Ephemera, mostly for Musical and Choral Performances

[1887–1951, Collection of Hagerstown, Maryland Ephemera, mostly for Musical and Choral Performances].

Ephemera group, mostly from Hagerstown, Maryland; principally, 10 musical and choral programs from 1916 to 1920. Sponsoring organizations include the Choral Society of Hagerstown, Concert..... Read More about 1887–1951, Collection of Hagerstown, Maryland Ephemera, mostly for Musical and Choral Performances

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When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title]. Julian...

When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title]

From cover to cover, a chromolithographically illustrated program for this “glittering military comic opera” set in the South during the American Civil War. The three-act..... Read More about When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title

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Noah Webster:] An Oration on Music. [manuscript’s caption title]. Unkwn

[Noah Webster:] An Oration on Music. [manuscript’s caption title]

Late 18th or early 19th century essay on music with original content, though freely borrowing from the the text of Noah Webster’s essay “On Vocal..... Read More about Noah Webster:] An Oration on Music. [manuscript’s caption title

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The Three Degrees. [caption title of publicity card for an all-women’s vocal trio]. Valerie...

The Three Degrees. [caption title of publicity card for an all-women’s vocal trio]

Publicity card for the Black women’s vocal trio of Victoria Wallace, Valerie Holiday, and Helen Scott who performed as The Three Degrees. The card, which..... Read More about The Three Degrees. [caption title of publicity card for an all-women’s vocal trio

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Publicity Photograph for Hip-Hop Artists Da-Lite and Kool Keem performing as Better Knowledge,...

[Publicity Photograph for Hip-Hop Artists Da-Lite and Kool Keem performing as Better Knowledge, inscribed and signed by both].

Publicity photograph, with condition issues, of the hip-hop duo Da-Lite and Kool Keem who performed as Better Knowledge. From the contact telephone numbers, the duo..... Read More about Publicity Photograph for Hip-Hop Artists Da-Lite and Kool Keem performing as Better Knowledge,...

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The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their unrivaled musical...

The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their unrivaled musical entertainments…

Rare broadside advertising this African-American albino quartet, shown performing in a minstrel array, playing the bones, the fiddle, the banjo and the tambourine. The quartet..... Read More about The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their unrivaled musical...

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Mills Brothers:] Good-Bye Blues [and:] Say “Si Si” (Para Vigo Me Voy). Words and, Dorothy...

[Mills Brothers:] Good-Bye Blues [and:] Say “Si Si” (Para Vigo Me Voy).

Two pieces of sheet music for the Mills Brothers, popular African American jazz and pop recording artists and entertainers and inductees to the Vocal Group..... Read More about Mills Brothers:] Good-Bye Blues [and:] Say “Si Si” (Para Vigo Me Voy

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Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly. John A. Lomax, Alan Lomax

Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly.

Subtitle: “King of the Twelve-String Guitar Players of the World, Long-Time Convict in the Penitentiaries of Texas and Louisiana.” The oral autobiography of Huddie Ledbetter..... Read More about Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly

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African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy]....

African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy].

Study of African-American psychology and religion and their influence on the slave songs or “spirituals” of the South by this noted Black historiographer, academic, and..... Read More about African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy

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Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of South...

Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of South Carolina broadside].

Broadside advertising regular performances of African American “Plantation Spirituals” at South Carolina’s Cypress Gardens and sung “...entirely by local colored people connected with Dean Hall..... Read More about Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of South...

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Slave Religion, Spirituals, and C.G. Jung. Earl E. Thorpe

Slave Religion, Spirituals, and C.G. Jung.

An unusual self-published work, inscribed and signed by the author, intersecting the culture, music, and life of African Americans with the world of Jungian psychology..... Read More about Slave Religion, Spirituals, and C.G. Jung

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18th Century American choir music:] To the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the first Parish...

[18th Century American choir music:] To the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the first Parish in the Town of Roxbury…1796. [opening lines of manuscript petition]

Document signed by ten members of the First Church in Roxbury, in Massachusetts, petitioning their fellow citizens and parishioners for funding to cover some of..... Read More about 18th Century American choir music:] To the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the first Parish...

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Jazz Poster:] Upper Darby High School ... The Count Basie Orchestra. Count Basie, Upper Darby...

[Jazz Poster:] Upper Darby High School ... The Count Basie Orchestra ...

Advertising poster for an appearance of the Count Basie Orchestra, likely from 1985, less than a year after the death of the legendary jazz pianist..... Read More about Jazz Poster:] Upper Darby High School ... The Count Basie Orchestra

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The Eastern Girls [cover title]. The Eastern-Empire Lyceum Bureau

The Eastern Girls [cover title].

The all-woman trio The Eastern Girls was comprised of a banjoist, a mandolin player, and a soprano singer. All the women sang. Here they are..... Read More about The Eastern Girls [cover title

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Songs and Stories of the Red Man. The Eastern Lyceum Bureau, Albert Gale, Martha Gale

Songs and Stories of the Red Man.

A white couple on the speaking and Chautauqua circuits, Albert and Martha Gale, billing themselves as remarkable musicians dress up as native Americans and perform..... Read More about Songs and Stories of the Red Man

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Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. With...

Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner.

Story, mission, progress, and multiple descriptions and viewpoints of life at Virginia’s Hampton Institute for African Americans and Native Americans; this title published almost a...... Read More about Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. With...

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“The Folk Songs of Our Southern Negro.” [College Term Paper]. Mary Louise Fryberger

“The Folk Songs of Our Southern Negro.” [College Term Paper]

College paper by a Smith College student writing of African-American musical tradition as seen from her perspective. The author puts forth the opening ideas that..... Read More about “The Folk Songs of Our Southern Negro.” [College Term Paper

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Bay-Bay Promotions—Presents a—Welcome Back Home! Persian Gulf Heroes with a Holiday Blues...

Bay-Bay Promotions—Presents a—Welcome Back Home! Persian Gulf Heroes with a Holiday Blues Festival… [1991 concert broadside]

Small broadside promoting an all-African American musical line-up for a July 4th holiday weekend musical concert for returning Gulf War veterans. Appearing at the concert—held..... Read More about Bay-Bay Promotions—Presents a—Welcome Back Home! Persian Gulf Heroes with a Holiday Blues...

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