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• Ragtime music -- Periodicals

• Earshot Jazz (1984-) (full serial archives)

• Ragtime Review (with recent commentary; 1914-1918) (full serial archives)

• Ragtime Review (with recent commentary; 1914-1918) (full serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Slave Songs of the United States (reprint; New York: P. Smith, 1951), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hampton Series: Negro Folk-Songs (4 volumes; New York and Boston: G. Schirmer, c1918-1919), ed. by Natalie Curtis Burlin
  • Volume I (Spirituals): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II (Spirituals): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume III (Work and Play Songs): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume IV (Work and Play Songs): multiple formats at archive.org
• Slave Songs of the United States (New York: A. Simpson and Co., 1867), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Twenty-Four Negro Melodies, Transcribed for the Piano (Boston: O. Ditson Co.; et al., c1905), ed. by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, contrib. by Booker T. Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• God Wills the Negro: An Anthropological and Geographical Restoration of the Lost History of the American Negro People, Being in Part a Theological Interpretation of Egyptian and Ethiopian Backgrounds (Chicago: Geographical Institute Press, 1939), by Theodore P. Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of American Negro Spirituals (New York: Viking Press, 1925), ed. by James Weldon Johnson, contrib. by J. Rosamond Johnson and Lawrence Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hampton and its Students, by M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow (page images at MOA)
• Uncle Remus and His Friends: Old Plantation Stories, Songs, and Ballads, With Sketches of Negro Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., c1892), by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Remus and His Friends: Old Plantation Stories, Songs, and Ballads, With Sketches of Negro Character ("Booklovers edition"; New York: McKinlay, Stone and Mackenzie, ca. 1922), by Joel Chandler Harris, illust. by A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Latest Blues by Columbia Race Stars: Columbia New Process Records, Made the New Way, Electrically, Viva-Tonal Recording, The Records Without Scratch (ca. 1927), by Columbia Records, Inc. (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Latest Blues by Columbia Race Stars: Columbia New Process Records, Made the New Way, Electrically, Viva-Tonal Recording, The Records Without Scratch (ca. 1927), by Columbia Records, Inc. (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Change is Gonna Come: Music, Race and the Soul of America (revised edition; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Craig Hansen Werner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rock This Way: Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Mel Stanfill (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• Phonophotography in Folk Music: American Negro Songs in New Notation (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1928), by Milton Metfessel, contrib. by Carl E. Seashore (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Blues Then and Now: The History of the Blues, by Frank Leanza (HTML with commentary at publicbookshelf.com)

• Blues Then and Now: The History of the Blues, by Frank Leanza (HTML with commentary at publicbookshelf.com)

• Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2019), by Bill Beuttler
  • HTML and Epub with commentary at Lever Press
  • HTML and PDF at JSTOR
  • HTML at Project MUSE

• The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2017), by Jonathan O. Wipplinger (PDF with commentary at Michigan and oapen.org)

• Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2017), by Christina Zanfagna (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• The Tabernacle Hymns (Chicago: Tabernacle Pub. Co., c1916), ed. by D. B. Towner and Arthur W. McKee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tabernacle Hymns, No. 2 (Chicago: Tabernacle Pub. Co., c1921), ed. by Paul Rader, George C. Stebbins, and Lance B. Latham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Revival Helper: A Collection of Songs for Christian Work and Worship (Chicago: S. Brainard's Sons Co., c1893), ed. by Charles Walker Ray (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Revival Helper: A Collection of Songs for Christian Work and Worship (Chicago: S. Brainard's Sons Co., c1893), ed. by Charles Walker Ray (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Jazz Republic: Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2017), by Jonathan O. Wipplinger (PDF with commentary at Michigan and oapen.org)

• A Jazz Improvisation Primer, by Marc Sabatella (HTML at outsideshore.com)

• Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2019), by Bill Beuttler
  • HTML and Epub with commentary at Lever Press
  • HTML and PDF at JSTOR
  • HTML at Project MUSE

• Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2019), by Bill Beuttler
  • HTML and Epub with commentary at Lever Press
  • HTML and PDF at JSTOR
  • HTML at Project MUSE

• Head Hunters: The Making of Jazz's First Platinum Album (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by Steven F. Pond (page images at HathiTrust)

• Music Violence: How Does it Affect our Children: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, November 6, 1997 (Washington: GPO, 1998), by United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music Lyrics and Commerce: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, February 11 and May 5, 1994 (Washington: GPO, 1994), by United States House. Committee on Energy and Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)

• Holy Hip Hop in the City of Angels (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2017), by Christina Zanfagna (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• Music Violence: How Does it Affect our Children: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia of the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, November 6, 1997 (Washington: GPO, 1998), by United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Book of American Negro Spirituals (New York: Viking Press, 1925), ed. by James Weldon Johnson, contrib. by J. Rosamond Johnson and Lawrence Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hampton and its Students, by M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow (page images at MOA)

• Twenty-Four Negro Melodies, Transcribed for the Piano (Boston: O. Ditson Co.; et al., c1905), ed. by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, contrib. by Booker T. Washington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Slave Songs of the United States (reprint; New York: P. Smith, 1951), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slave Songs of the United States (New York: A. Simpson and Co., 1867), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Slave Songs of the United States (reprint; New York: P. Smith, 1951), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hampton Series: Negro Folk-Songs (4 volumes; New York and Boston: G. Schirmer, c1918-1919), ed. by Natalie Curtis Burlin
  • Volume I (Spirituals): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II (Spirituals): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume III (Work and Play Songs): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume IV (Work and Play Songs): multiple formats at archive.org
• Slave Songs of the United States (New York: A. Simpson and Co., 1867), ed. by William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Crisis (African American magazine) (partial serial archives)
• Ebony (partial serial archives)
• Jet (partial serial archives)
• NAACP Annual Report, by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (partial serial archives)
• Ebony Jr! (1973-1985) (partial serial archives)
• Negro Digest (partial serial archives)
• Freedomways (full serial archives)
• The Journal of Negro History (partial serial archives)
• Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life (partial serial archives)
• The Messenger (New York: Messenger Pub. Co., 1917-1928) (full serial archives)
• Alexander's Magazine (full serial archives)
• The Anglo-African Magazine (reprint of 1859 volume (magazine continued into 1860)) (partial serial archives)
• Black World (see also Negro Digest) (partial serial archives)
• The Brownies' Book (does not have Dec. 1921 issue; otherwise appears complete), ed. by W. E. B. Du Bois (partial serial archives)
• The Champion Magazine (partial serial archives)
• The Colored American Magazine (partial serial archives)
• The Freedman's Journal (Boston, 1865-1866) (full serial archives)
• The Half-Century Magazine (partial serial archives)
• The Horizon, ed. by W. E. B. Du Bois (partial serial archives)
• The Voice of the Negro (full serial archives)
• All-Negro Comics (full serial archives)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.