African Americans -- Music
This heading is assigned to music of African Americans. Musical works about African Americans collectively are entered under African Americans -- Songs and music.
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- African Americans -- Music -- Discography
- African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism
- African Americans -- Music -- Periodicals
- Blues (Music)
- Gospel music
- Jazz
- Ragtime music
- Rap (Music)
- Spirituals (Songs)
- African American music
- Afro-American music
- Afro-American songs
- Black American music
- Black music (African American music)
- Negro music
- Negro songs
- Topical songs (Negro)
- Topical songs (Negroes)
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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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2019), by Bill Beuttler
- 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
- 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
- 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
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: African Americans- The Negro Problem in the United States: Its Rise, Development and Solution (originally published as a dissertation in Germany in 1892; reprinted Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press, 1970), by Frank Wellington Gage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The White Side of a Black Subject: A Vindication of the Afro-American Race, From the Landing of Slaves at St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565, to the Present Time (reprint of revised 1896 edition; New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Norman B. Wood (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The American Negro in the Communist Party (1954), by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Let us Understand the Negro (Clarksdale, MS: The author, ca. 1952), by Paul Clark (page images at Preservica)
- The Roots of Prejudice Against the Negro in the United States (Boston: Boston University Press, 1948), by Naomi Friedman Goldstein (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Communist Position on the Negro Question (New York: New Century Publishers, 1947), by William Z. Foster, Benjamin J. Davis, Eugene Dennis, James E. Jackson, James S. Allen, Abner W. Berry, Homer Chase, Alex Bittelman, Ray Hansborough, Max Weiss, Edward E. Strong, and William L. Patterson, contrib. by Nat Ross (PDF at flvc.org)
- Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization (Poplarville, MS: Dream House Pub. Co., 1947), by Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (page images at HathiTrust)
- "My Friends": A Fireside Chat on the War (written under "Native Son" pseudonym; New York: Workers Party, 1940), by C. L. R. James
- Toward Justice: Reflections on A Lesson Before Dying (Knoxville: Newfound Press, c2017), ed. by Robin A. Bedenbaugh (PDF at Tennessee)
- The Negroes in a Soviet America (1935), by James W. Ford and James S. Allen (page images at Preservica)
- "You Cannot Kill the Working Class" (New York: International Labor Defense and League of Struggle for Negro Rights, ca. 1934), by Angelo Herndon (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Negro in America (Reading with a Purpose #68; Chicago; American Library Association, 1933), by Alain Locke
- The American Negro (International Pamphlets #18; New York: International Pamphlets, 1932), by James S. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
- The American Negro (International Pamphlets #18, second edition; New York: International Pamphlets, 1932), by James S. Allen (PDF at flvc.org)
- Friction Between the Races: Causes and Cure (1930), by Sutton E. Griggs (HTML at Virginia)
- The American Negro as a Dependent, Defective and Delinquent (c1914), by Charles H. McCord (multiple formats at archive.org)
- An Appeal to Conscience: America's Code of Caste a Disgrace to Democracy (New York: Macmillan, 1920), by Kelly Miller, contrib. by Albert Bushnell Hart (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Characteristics of the Southern Negro (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1910), by E. H. Randle
- The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (originally published 1852), by Martin Robison Delany (Gutenberg text)
- The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, Politically Considered (Philadelphia: The author, 1852), by Martin Robison Delany (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil, by W. E. B. Du Bois (Gutenberg text)
- Darkwater: Voices From Within the Veil (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), by W. E. B. Du Bois (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Devil Between the White Man and the Negro (second edition, 1907), by William A. Freeman (multiple formats at Google)
- Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1908), by Ray Stannard Baker (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Freedmen's Book (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865), by Lydia Maria Child
- God's Dealings With the Negro (Boston: Richard G. Badger, c1919), by Richard Mayers (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Is the Negro Making Good? (Cincinnati: Printed for the author by the Methodist Book Concern, c1913), by Charles Edward Locke (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Key to the Problem: or, Tale of a Sable City (Philadelphia: A. M. E. Book Concern, ca. 1904), by H. T. Johnson
- Letters on the Condition of the African Race in the United States, by a Southern Lady (Philadelphia: T. K. and P.G. Collins, printers, 1852), by Mrs. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
- Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro (New York: H. Dexter, Hamilton and Co., 1864), by David G. Croly (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Negro a Menace to American Civilization (Boston: R. G. Badger, 1907), by Robert W. Shufeldt
- The Negro and the White Man (Philadelphia: A. M. E. Publishing House, 1897), by W. J. Gaines
- The Negro Problem (Baltimore: John Murphy and Co., 1891), by William Cabell Bruce (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Negro Problem (ca. 1903), contrib. by Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles W. Chesnutt, Wilford H. Smith, H. T. Kealing, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Timothy Thomas Fortune (Gutenberg text)
- Negroes and Negro "Slavery": The First an Inferior Race, The Latter Its Normal Condition (third edition; New York: Van Evrie, Horton and Co., 1863), by John H. Van Evrie (page images at Google)
- The Past and the Present Condition, and the Destiny, of the Colored Race (1848), by Henry Highland Garnet, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF at unl.edu)
- A School History of the Negro Race in America, from 1619 to 1890, With a Short Introduction as to the Origin of the Race; Also a Short Sketch of Liberia (revised edition; Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton, 1891), by Edward A. Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Souls of Black Folk, by W. E. B. Du Bois (Gutenberg text and audio)
- The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches (second edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1903), by W. E. B. Du Bois (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Truth About Lynching and the Negro in the South, In Which the Author Pleads That the South Be Made Safe for the White Race (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1918), by Winfield H. Collins
- The Ultimate Solution of the American Negro Problem (not by the earlier Indiana novelist/historian Eggleston; Boston: R. G. Badger, c1913), by Edward Eggleston
- The Upward Path: The Evolution of a Race (revised edition of "From Darkness to Light"; New York: Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada, 1909), by Mary Helm
- The Voice of the Negro, 1919 (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1920), ed. by Robert Thomas Kerlin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The White Man's Burden: A Discussion of the Interracial Question With Special Reference to the Responsibility of the White Race to the Negro Problem (third edition; Birmingham, AL: B. F. Riley, c1910), by B. F. Riley
- The White Side of a Black Subject, Enlarged and Brought Down to Date: A Vindication of the Afro-American Race, From the Landing of Slaves at St. Augustine, Florida, in 1565, to the Present Time (Chicago: American Pub. House, 1897), by Norman B. Wood (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Your Negro Neighbor (New York: Macmillan, 1918), by Benjamin Brawley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Step by Step with Interracial Groups (New York: The Woman's Press, c1946), by Dorothy I. Height (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Race Question and the Negro: A Study of the Catholic Doctrine on Interracial Justice (revised edition of "Interracial Justice"; New York and Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., 1943), by John La Farge (page images at HathiTrust)
- Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968), by United States National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, contrib. by Otto Kerner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Interracial Justice: A Study of the Catholic Doctrine of Race Relations (New York: America Press, 1937), by John La Farge (page images at HathiTrust)
- Trends in White Attitudes Toward Negroes (report #119; Chicago: National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago, c1967), by Mildred A. Schwartz (PDF at norc.org)
- Color, Communism and Common Sense (New York: Alliance, c1958), by Manning Johnson (illustrated HTML at manningjohnson.org)
- Communism and the NAACP (2 volumes; ca. 1958), by J. B. Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
- As to The Leopard's Spots: An Open Letter to Thomas Dixon, Jr. (Washington: K. Miller, c1905), by Kelly Miller
- Democracy and Race Friction: A Study in Social Ethics (New York: Macmillan, 1914), by John Moffatt Mecklin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Eureka Perpetual Calendar: Chronological, Astrological, Maternity, Horoscope Chart, Ready Reference Church, Society, Business, Hotel and Professional Directory of Colored People (Lawnside, NJ: Research Pub. Co., ca. 1915), by E. Parker Read (page images at HathiTrust)
- The New South Investigated (Detroit: Ferguson Printing Co., 1888), by D. Augustus Straker (page images at HathiTrust)
- Opinions of the Early Presidents, and of the Fathers of the Republic, Upon Slavery, and Upon Negroes as Men and Soldiers (Loyal Publication Society #18; New York: Wm. C. Bryant and Co., printers, 1863)
- Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey (1923), by Marcus Garvey, ed. by Amy Jacques Garvey (PDF at worldafropedia.com)
- Recollections of a Sleeping Car Porter (Jersey City: Doan and Pilson, 1892), by Jack Thorne
- The Red Flag in John Bull's Eyes, by Frances Power Cobbe (HTML at Indiana)
- Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles: Together With a Preamble to the Colored Citizens of the World, but in Particular and Very Expressly to Those of the United States of America (first edition; Boston: Printed for the author, 1829), by David Walker (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles: Together With a Preamble to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular, and Very Expressly to Those of the United States of America (third edition; Boston: Revised and published by D. Walker, 1830), by David Walker
- Anti-Negro Propaganda in School Textbooks (1939), by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Negro Orators and Their Orations (Washington: Associated Publishers, c1925), ed. by Carter Godwin Woodson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Negroes in Negroland, the Negroes in America, and Negroes Generally; Also, the Several Races of White Men, Considered as the Involuntary and Predestined Supplanters of the Black Races (New York: G. W. Carleton; London: S. Low, Son, and Co., 1868), by Hinton Rowan Helper
- Subgenation: The Theory of the Normal Relation of the Races; An Answer to "Miscegenation" (New York: J. Bradburn, 1864), by John H. Van Evrie
- America As I Found It, by Mary Grey Lundie Duncan (page images at MOA)
- The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855), by William C. Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- White Supremacy and Negro Subordination: or, Negroes a Subordinate Race, and (So-Called) Slavery its Normal Condition (second edition; New York: Van Evrie, Horton and Co., 1870), by John H. Van Evrie
More items available under broader and related terms at left.