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• Musicians, African American
• Negro musicians

• Negro Musicians and Their Music (based on the first and second editions, 1936 and 1943), by Maud Cuney-Hare (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Negro and his music (The Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1936), by Alain Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Jubilee Singers; with their songs (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by J. B. T. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro musicians and their music (The Associated publishers, inc., 1936), by Maud Cuney-Hare (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Jubilee singers, including their songs (The Cleveland printing & publishing co., 1892), by J. B. T. Marsh and F. J. Loudin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Jubilee singers; with their songs (S. W. Green's Son, 1883), by J. B. T. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro in literature and art in the United States (Duffield & Company, 1918), by Benjamin Griffith Brawley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The singing campaign for ten thousand pounds; or, The Jubilee Singers in Great Britain (American Missionary Society, 1875), by Gustavus D Pike and Theodore Frelinghuysen Seward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and some highly musical people : containing brief chapters on I. A description of music. II. The music of nature. III. A glance at the history of music. IV. The power, beauty, and uses of music. Following which are given sketches of the lives of remarkable musicians of the colored race ; with portraits, and an appendix containing copies of music composed by colored men (Johnson Reprint, 1968), by James M. Trotter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of the Jubilee Singers with their songs. (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row, MDCCCLXXVI [1876], 1876), by J. B. T. Marsh, Gresham Press, and Hodder and Stoughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Jubilee Singers; with their songs (Houghton, Mifflin, 1881), by J. B. T. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of the Jubilee Singers with their songs (Boston : Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1880., 1880), by J. B. T. Marsh and Randall K. Burkett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Jubilee Singers : with their songs (Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, [1880], 1880), by J. B. T. Marsh, Cedric Dover, William L. Dawson, Randall K. Burkett, Cedric Dover Library (Emory University. MARBL), and William L. Dawson Library (Emory University. General Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of the Jubilee Singers with their songs (London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1876., 1876), by J. B. T. Marsh and Randall K. Burkett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jubilee Singers : and their campaign for twenty thousand dollars (Lee and Shepard ;, 1873), by Gustavus D. Pike (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and some highly musical people : containing brief chapters on I. A description of music. II. The music of nature. III. A glance at the history of music. IV. The power, beauty, and uses of music. Following which are given sketches of the lives of remarkable musicians of the colored race, with portraits, and an appendix containing copies of music composed by colored men (Lee and Shepard ;, 1886), by James M. Trotter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and some highly musical people; containing brief chapters on I. A description of music, II. The music of nature, III. A glance at the history of music, [and] IV. The power, beauty, and uses of music, following which are given sketches of the lives of remarkable musicians of the colored race. (Lee and Shepard, 1880), by James M. Trotter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great revival on long play. (Carleton Jazz Club, Carleton College, 1957), by John Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Negro music journal. (The Negro Music Journal., 1902), by Washington Conservatory of Music (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Jubilee Singers : with their songs (Hodder and Stoughton, 1898), by J. B. T. Marsh, Ruth-Ann Mellish Harris, and F. J. Loudin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Basic jazz on long play. The great soloists: ragtime, folk-song, blues, jazz, swing, and the great bands: New Orleans, swing, dixieland. (Carleton Jazz Club, Carleton College, 1954), by John Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of the Jubilee Singers : with their songs (Houghton, Osgood, 1880), by J. B. T. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jubilee songs. (Houghton Mifflin, 1881), by J. B. T. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Sketch of the Life of Thomas Greene Bethune (Blind Tom) (Philadelphia: Ledger Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1865) (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Jubilee Singers, and their campaign for twenty thousand dollars. (AMS Press, 1974), by Gustavus D. Pike (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and some highly musical people; containing brief chapters on I. A description of music. II. The music of nature. III. A glance at the history of music. IV. The power, beauty, and uses of music. Following which are given sketches of the lives of remarkable musicians of the colored race. With portraits, and an appendix containing copies of music composed by colored men. (Lee and Shepard;, 1878), by James M. Trotter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jubilee Singers : and their campaign for twenty thousand dollars (Lee and Shepard ;, 1873), by Gustavus D. Pike (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and some highly musical people : containing brief chapters on I. A description of music. II. The music of nature. III. A glance at the history of music. IV. The power, beauty, and uses of music. Following which are given sketches of the lives of remarkable musicians of the colored race, with portraits, and an appendix containing copies of music composed by colored men (Lee and Shepard ;, 1886), by James M. Trotter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous modern Negro musicians (Brooklyn, N.Y. : Press Forum Co., 1921., 1921), by Penman Lovingood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and Some Highly Musical People, by James M. Trotter (Gutenberg ebook)

• Biographical Sketch of Millie Christine, the Carolina Twin, Surnamed the Two-Headed Nightingale, and the Eighth Wonder of the World (Cincinnati, OH: Hennegan and Co, ca. 1902) (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Night Song (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961), by John A. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Paris Blues (New York: Ballantine Books, c1957), by Harold Flender (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Negro music journal. (Negro Universities Press, 1902), by Washington Conservatory of Music (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bluing the blues (Leo. Feist Inc., 1919), by Henry Ragas, Starmer, Sidney D. Mitchell, and Inc Leo Feist (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Contemporary American composers; being a study of the music of this country, its present conditions and its future, with critical estimates and biographies of the principal living composers; and an abundance of portraits, fac-simile musical autographs, and compositions (L. C. Page and company (incorporated), 1900), by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bibliography of early secular American music (Printed for the author by H. L. McQueen, 1905), by O. G. Sonneck (page images at HathiTrust)
• A hundred years of music in America. An account of musical effort in America during the past century ... together with historical and biographical sketches of important personalities. (G.L. Howe, 1889), by Granville L. Howe and W. S. B. Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• An hour with American music (Lippincott, 1929), by Paul Rosenfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of popular music (Ziff-Davis publishing company, 1944), by David Ewen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revue : a nostalgic reprise of the great Broadway period (Fleet Pub. Corp., 1962), by Robert Baral (page images at HathiTrust)
• In memoriam. A book of record concerning former members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (Pub. by the Academy, 1922), by American Academy of Arts and Letters and William Milligan Sloane (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of American church music. (Morehouse-Gorham Co., 1953), by Leonard Ellinwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art-song in America; a study in the development of American music (Oliver Ditson company;, 1930), by William Treat Upton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who is who in music; biographical reviews, pictorial and other features of interest to and concerning persons in the world of music... (Berghan Pub. Co., 1927), by Sigmund Gottfried Spaeth and Alfred V. Frankenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Invincible America : the national music of United-States in peace and at war : instrumental and vocal concert : illustrated with photographic projections, engravings and historical comments (Printing "El Siglo XX,", 1919), by Guillermo M. Tomás and Cuba. Comisión nacional de propaganda por la guerra y de auxilio á sus victimas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous American composers : being a study of the music of this country, and its future, with biographies of the leading composers of the present time (L. C. Page & company, 1910), by Rupert Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Performing arts : music. (Library of Congress :, 1995), by Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and musicians in Chicago; the city's leading artists, organizations and art buildings, progress and development ... (F. Ffrench, 1899), by Florence Ffrench (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bibliography of early secular American music (Printed for the author by H. L. McQueen, 1905), by O. G. Sonneck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The masters and their music : a series of illustrative programs, with biographical esthetical, and critical annotations, designed as an introduction to music as literature; for the use of clubs, classes, and private study (T. Presser, 1898), by W. S. B. Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Basic jazz on long play. The great soloists: ragtime, folk-song, blues, jazz, swing, and the great bands: New Orleans, swing, dixieland. (Carleton Jazz Club, Carleton College, 1954), by John Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Who is who in music 1951 (Who is Who in Music, Inc., Ltd. [etc.], 1927), by J. T. H. Mize, Sigmund Spaeth, and Alfred V. Frankenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies of contemporary American composers (J. Fischer & Bro., 1926), by John Tasker Howard (page images at HathiTrust)

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