Autobiography of African American composer, cornetist, band leader, and publisher W.C.Handy, edited by Harlem Renaissance novelist Arna Bontemps. Handy is widely known as the “Father..... Read More about Father of the Blues. An Autobiography
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Archive of 113 letters sent to U.S. Marine Corps serviceman Cleveland Murphy (1930–aft.1970) from family and friends in Indianapolis, Indiana and elsewhere. Private First Class..... Read More about 1958–1966, Archive of Incoming Correspondence to an African-American Marine
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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...
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...
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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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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...
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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
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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
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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
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
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...
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...
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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
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...
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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
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
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
