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...
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
Rare, unrecorded broadside or song sheet for “Lift Every Voice and Sing” with the poem/lyrics written by Jacksonville, Florida native James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938), African..... Read More about Capt. Levi M. Hood Lodge. Lift Every Voice and Sing (National Negro Hymn
Program for an evening’s entertainment of song, spoken word, and a theatrical performance given jointly by students of Cheyney Normal School, an historically Black college..... Read More about Leslie Pinckney Hill:] Cheyney-Dunbar Recital. Chester High School Auditorium ... 1928 ......
Rare program from a performance by the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, an historically black university in Nashville. The group was led by African-American..... Read More about The Fisk University Jubilee Singers from Nashville, Tenn. Original Company 1871. Twelfth Season....
![18th Century American choir music:] To the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the first Parish...](/pictures/thumb/3729182_1.jpg?v=1581355748)
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...
From Pennsylvania, during the 1920s, here is a group of eight Harrisburg, Pennsylvania theater programs, including two blackface minstrel shows. The various performances were accomplished..... Read More about A 1923–1929 Collection of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Amateur Theater Performances
Comprehensive history of African American folk music, specific to the liturgical archetype. “Advanced and perceptive, this is the definitive history of a simple musical form..... Read More about Black Song: The Forge and the Flame. The Story of How the Afro-American Spiritual was Hammered Out
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
![First Atlantic City Jazz Festival] Sid Bernstein Presents Jazz at the Warren Theatre, Atlantic...](/pictures/thumb/3729007_1.jpg?v=1574295690)
Illustrated program for the First Atlantic City jazz Festival held over three days in June 1960 at the Warren Theatre located on the New Jersey..... Read More about First Atlantic City Jazz Festival] Sid Bernstein Presents Jazz at the Warren Theatre, Atlantic...
![The Eastern Girls [cover title]. The Eastern-Empire Lyceum Bureau](/pictures/thumb/3728735_1.jpg?v=1557936748)
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
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
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..... Read More about Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. With...
Choral concert program for the Fisk Male Glee Club of Fisk University, an historically black university (HBCU) in Nashville, Tennessee. The glee club sang in..... Read More about Program. The 19th Annual Concert of The Fisk Male Glee Club, Prof. Jno. W. Work, Director…Fisk...
![Ray Charles Promotional Music Concert Program]. Elaine Jesmer, 1930–2004, Tangerine Record...](/pictures/thumb/3728536_1.jpg?v=1554831534)
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..... Read More about Ray Charles Promotional Music Concert Program
![“The Folk Songs of Our Southern Negro.” [College Term Paper]. Mary Louise Fryberger](/pictures/thumb/3727686_1.jpg?v=1554822721)
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..... Read More about “The Folk Songs of Our Southern Negro.” [College Term Paper
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..... Read More about Le Pays de L’Or. Pièce à Grand Spectacle en 3 actes et 14 tableaux
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...
![Theatre de L’UNESCO…Satchmo the Great, Louis Armstrong & his All Stars [cover title]. Louis...](/pictures/thumb/3728534_1.jpg?v=1554304016)
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..... Read More about Theatre de L’UNESCO…Satchmo the Great, Louis Armstrong & his All Stars [cover title
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..... Read More about Negro Folk Rhymes. Wise and Otherwise. With a Study
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..... Read More about The Song of the Cotton Picker
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..... Read More about Spring Frolic presented by Colored Choral Society ... West Chester High School Auditorium…...
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..... Read More about Paul Robeson. Souvenir-Program. March 18, 1932. Academy of Music
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..... Read More about Twenty-Two Years’ Work of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
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..... Read More about Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. With...
