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
First edition of this landmark study of American Black music from the days of slavery to contemporary jazz. In the book’s introduction, Jones writes that..... Read More about Blues People, Negro Music in White America
Extensive essay and blues music anthology written and gathered together by this African American composer, cornetist, band leader. Handy is widely known as the “Father..... Read More about Blues, An Anthology. [First Edition
Biography of Black composer and musical educator Robert Nathaniel Dett (1882–1943). Dett saw himself and his students at Hampton Institute in Virginia, where he taught..... Read More about R. Nathaniel Dett, His Life and Works (1882-1943
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
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
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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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
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
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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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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
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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...
![“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...
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
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
