Promotional music concert program for blind African-American singer, songwriter, composer, and pianist Ray Charles (1930–2004), issued by his record publisher, Tangerine Record Corp. and distributor...
Souvenir program for a ballet performance held in honor of Queen Marie of Romania (1875–1938) at Philadelphia’s 1926 Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, her first public appearance.....
College paper by a young female Smith College student writing of African American musical tradition as seen from her perspective. The author puts forth the...
C.1892 French chromolithographic poster for Le Pays de l’Or [The Golden or Promised Land], a comic operetta and spectacle set in America including the Western.....
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.....
Rare Middle Eastern jazz concert program for trumpeter Louis Armstrong and His All Stars band at Beirut, Lebanon’s Théâtre de l’UNESCO. Armstrong’s four-day appearance was.....
Sound copy of this collection of scored music with lyrics of African American gospel and spiritual songs and plantation melodies: “Roll, Jordan Roll”, “Steal Away”.....
Concert broadside promoting African American baritone William Bowers appearance at New York City’s Town Hall performance space. The event was a benefit concert for the.....
Signed promotional poster, with clever design, for Louis Jordan (1908–1975), African American jazz musician, songwriter and bandleader. He was known as the “King of the.....
Collection of three rare pieces of sheet music by celebrated African American composer Francis (Frank) Johnson (1792–1844). Freeborn in Philadelphia, Johnson was a skilled violin.....
Poster advertising the world premiere of African American composer Ulysses Kay’s three-act opera, Frederick Douglass. Composed in 1979–1985 in collaboration with white librettist Donald Dorr.....
Talley, an African American professor at Fisk University, presents an exhaustive compilation of black American folk rhymes followed by an almost one hundred-page scholarly interpretation...
Entertainment advertising poster for a 1941 musical performance in Muncie, Indiana by African American singer Ethyl Fitzgerald and “Her Original Southern Play Boys.” Fitzgerald and.....
Documentary evidence of the rebellious and outspoken Paul Robeson; a man not just known for his extraordinary voice, but for his activist roots in American...
Introduction by Archibald Rutledge. With photographs by Carl Julien. Photos and poems that document the songs and daily life of the “gullah Negroes” of South.....
Rare; unrecorded. Music program for this Chester County African American choral society, heavily in the balance of female members. The music choices are interesting, in...
Concert program of classical music and Negro Spirituals given by baritone Paul Robeson (1898–1976), celebrated actor, singer, and civil rights activist. The concert was performed...
Title continues: “Records of Negro and Indian Graduates and ex-Students With historical and personal sketches and testimony on important race questions from within and without.....
Story, mission, progress, and multiple descriptions and viewpoints of life at the Hampton Institute for African-Americans and native Americans; this title published almost a decade...
Sheet music for Ruth Florence’s I’ll Come Sailing Home to You with music for piano and ukulele by King Kalakaua and Johnny Noble, both honorees.....
Sixty-four individual musical compositions. A bound volume of eighteenth-century French sheet music for contra dance, guitar, etc. collected by Samuel Breck (1771–1862), noted Philadelphia merchant...
1920 Laboratory note by Thomas Edison, inventor of the phonograph, concerning moulds for his company’s proprietary “Edison Disc Phonograph” records. Here in his own hand.....
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.....
Work: “This volume contains over 250 selections. Includes a chapter which gives special attention to the music for the songs, and a chapter on the...
First Edition, and a very pleasing copy, of Fisher’s study of the haunting melodies and swinging rhythms of African American slave songs and spirituals of.....
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![Negro Slave Songs in the United States. [First Edition]. Miles Mark Fisher.](/pictures/thumb/3727285_1.jpg?v=1538433153)