![The Eastern Girls [cover title]. The Eastern-Empire Lyceum Bureau](/pictures/thumb/3728735_1.jpg?v=1557936748)
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
Music and Musicians
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
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 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...
Program. The 19th Annual Concert of The Fisk Male Glee Club, Prof. Jno. W. Work, Director…Fisk Memorial Chapel.
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)
[Ray Charles Promotional Music Concert Program].
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
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“The Folk Songs of Our Southern Negro.” [College Term Paper]
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
Le Pays de L’Or. Pièce à Grand Spectacle en 3 actes et 14 tableaux.
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
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...
![Theatre de L’UNESCO…Satchmo the Great, Louis Armstrong & his All Stars [cover title]. Louis...](/pictures/thumb/3728534_1.jpg?v=1554304016)
Theatre de L’UNESCO…Satchmo the Great, Louis Armstrong & his All Stars [cover title].
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
![Talk! about Jordan [signed promotional poster for Louis Jordan]. Louis Jordan, General Amusement...](/pictures/thumb/3728526_1.jpg?v=1554840620)
Talk! about Jordan [signed promotional poster for Louis Jordan].
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..... Read More about Talk! about Jordan [signed promotional poster for Louis Jordan
![Frederick Douglass, Music by Ulysses Kay…World Premiere, New Jersey State Opera… [poster]....](/pictures/thumb/3728387_1.jpg?v=1548868044)
Frederick Douglass, Music by Ulysses Kay…World Premiere, New Jersey State Opera… [poster]
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..... Read More about Frederick Douglass, Music by Ulysses Kay…World Premiere, New Jersey State Opera… [poster
Negro Folk Rhymes. Wise and Otherwise. With a Study.
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
Breakfast Dance Hit of the Year, Ethyl Fitzgerald and Her Original Southern Play Boys from Louisville, Kentucky…1st Northern Tour. [African American Female Singer]
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..... Read More about Breakfast Dance Hit of the Year, Ethyl Fitzgerald and Her Original Southern Play Boys from...
The Song of the Cotton Picker.
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
Spring Frolic presented by Colored Choral Society ... West Chester High School Auditorium… [opening lines of program]
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…...
Paul Robeson. Souvenir-Program. March 18, 1932. Academy of Music.
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
Twenty-Two Years’ Work of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.
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
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 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...
![I’ll Come Sailing Home to You. [Hawaii; King Kalakaua]. lyrics Ruth Florence, Johnny Noble,...](/pictures/thumb/3727825_1.jpg?v=1540930806)
I’ll Come Sailing Home to You. [Hawaii; King Kalakaua]
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..... Read More about I’ll Come Sailing Home to You. [Hawaii; King Kalakaua
[Collection of 18th Century Secular French Sheet Music bound up and kept by Philadelphian Samuel Breck].
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... Read More about Collection of 18th Century Secular French Sheet Music bound up and kept by Philadelphian Samuel...
![Important Thomas Alva Edison Manuscript Laboratory Note]. “Edison”, 1847–1931,...](/pictures/thumb/3727757_1.jpg?v=1556129873)
[Important Thomas Alva Edison Manuscript Laboratory Note].
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..... Read More about Important Thomas Alva Edison Manuscript Laboratory Note
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
Negro Workaday Songs.
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... Read More about Negro Workaday Songs
![Negro Slave Songs in the United States. [First Edition]. Miles Mark Fisher](/pictures/thumb/3727285_1.jpg?v=1538433153)
Negro Slave Songs in the United States. [First Edition]
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..... Read More about Negro Slave Songs in the United States. [First Edition
![You’ll Find Old Dixieland in France [sheet music]. lyrics Grant Clarke, music Geo. W. Meyer,...](/pictures/thumb/3727075_1.jpg?v=1540246015)
You’ll Find Old Dixieland in France [sheet music].
Unusual small format sheet music celebrating African-American soldiers fighting in France in the First World War. With lyrics in both English and French, the song... Read More about You’ll Find Old Dixieland in France [sheet music