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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 When Johnny Comes Marching Home, a “glittering military comic opera” set in the South during the..... 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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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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Uncle Ned. As Sung by de Colored Society in General. Stephen C. Foster, 1826–1864

Uncle Ned. As Sung by de Colored Society in General.

Popular ante-bellum minstrel song Uncle Ned, here issued as a post-Civil War penny song sheet. The song-poem comprises three quatrains and a quatrain chorus. Although..... Read More about Uncle Ned. As Sung by de Colored Society in General

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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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Leslie Pinckney Hill:] Cheyney-Dunbar Recital. Chester High School Auditorium ... 1928 ......

[Leslie Pinckney Hill:] Cheyney-Dunbar Recital. Chester High School Auditorium ... 1928 ... Cheyney Normal School, Chester High School Dunbar Society.

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 ......

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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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A 1923–1929 Collection of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Amateur Theater Performances

[A 1923–1929 Collection of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Amateur Theater Performances.]

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

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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 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...

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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 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

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Le Pays de L’Or. Pièce à Grand Spectacle en 3 actes et 14 tableaux. “Le...

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

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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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Negro Folk Rhymes. Wise and Otherwise. With a Study. Thomas W. Talley

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

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The Song of the Cotton Picker. Madeline Horres Hantske, Carl Julien

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

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Paul Robeson. Souvenir-Program. March 18, 1932. Academy of Music. Paul Robeson, 1898–1976

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

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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 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...

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I’ll Come Sailing Home to You. [Hawaii; King Kalakaua]. lyrics Ruth Florence, Johnny Noble,...

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

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