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• Blues (Music) -- History and criticism
• Gospel music -- History and criticism
• Jazz -- History and criticism
• Rap (Music) -- History and criticism
• Spirituals (Songs) -- History and criticism
• African Americans -- Southern States -- Music -- History and criticism

• 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)
• The Negro and his music (The Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1936), by Alain Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Poetry of the blues (Oak Publications, 1963), by Samuel Charters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Afro-American folksongs; a study in racial and national music. (F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1962), by Henry Edward Krehbiel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro workaday songs (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Howard Washington Odum and Guy Benton Johnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Afro-American folksongs : a study in racial and national music (G. Schirmer, 1914), by Henry Edward Krehbiel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk song of the American Negro. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by John Wesley Work (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some current folk-songs of the Negro (Folk-lore Society of Texas, 1912), by W. H. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk-songs of the American Negro; a collection of unprinted texts preceded by a general survey of the traits of Negro song ([n.p., 1923), by Nettie Fitzgerald McAdams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro and his songs; a study of typical Negro songs in the South (The University of North Carolina press, 1925), by Howard Washington Odum and Guy Benton Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Remus : his songs and his sayings (D. Appleton, 1929), by Joel Chandler Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Remus : his songs and his sayings (Hawthorn Books, 1921), by Joel Chandler Harris and A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Classroom material. (Service Bureau for Intercultural Education, 1941), by Rose K. Nelson and Dorothy L. Cole (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Negro workaday songs, by Guy Benton Johnson and Howard Washington Odum (Gutenberg ebook)
• Some Current Folk-Songs of the Negro, by W. H. Thomas (Gutenberg ebook)

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

• Sankey's story of the gospel hymns and of sacred songs and solos (Sunday School Times, 1906), by Ira David Sankey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sankey's story of the gospel hymns and of sacred songs and solos (Sunday School Times Co. ;, 1906), by Ira D. Sankey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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 André Hodeir jazz reader (University of Michigan Press, 2006), by André Hodeir and Jean-Louis Pautrot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New Orleans jazz study newsletter (The Center, 1991), by United States. Preservation of Jazz Advisory Commission and United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jazz masters (Washington, D.C. : National Endowment for the Arts, 2012., 2012), by National Endowment for the Arts (page images at HathiTrust)

• The bebop revolution in words and music (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 1994), by Dave Oliphant and Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (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)

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

• Slave songs of the United States (Peter Smith, 1951), by William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison, and Charles Pickard Ware (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk-songs of the American Negro; a collection of unprinted texts preceded by a general survey of the traits of Negro song ([n.p., 1923), by Nettie Fitzgerald McAdams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old plantation hymns (AMS Press, 1972), by William Eleazar Barton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Religious folk-songs of the Southern negroes (s.n., 1909), by Howard Washington Odum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes, by Howard Washington Odum (Gutenberg ebook)

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)
• Negro songs, an anthology (Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924), by Clement Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black cameos (A. & C. Boni, 1924), by R. Emmet Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seventy Negro spirituals (Oliver Ditson company;, 1926), by William Arms Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blues : an anthology (A. & C. Boni, 1926), by W. C. Handy, Miguel Covarrubias, and Abbe Niles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Singing soldiers (C. Scribner's Sons, 1927), by John Jacob Niles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro folk rhymes, wise and otherwise (The Macmillan Company, 1922), by Thomas Washington Talley (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Henry; tracking down a negro legend (The University of North Carolina press, 1929), by Guy Benton Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious folk songs of the Negro. (AMS Press, 1973), by Hampton Institute and Thomas P. Fenner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poetry of America; selections from one hundred American poets from 1776 to 1876. (G. Bell, 1878), by W. J. Linton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Suriname folk-lore (Columbia university press, 1936), by Melville J. Herskovits, Mieczyslaw Kolinski, and Frances S. Herskovits (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)
• Afro-American folksongs : a study in racial and national music (G. Schirmer, 1914), by Henry Edward Krehbiel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cabin and plantation songs as sung by the Hampton students (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1901), by Thomas P. Fenner, Frederic G. Rathbun, Bessie Cleaveland, and Hampton Institute (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cabin and plantation songs : as sung by the Hampton students (AMS Press, 1977), by Thomas P. Fenner, Frederic G. Rathbun, Bessie Cleaveland, and Hampton Institute (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cabin and plantation songs, as sung by the Hampton students. ([s.l.], 1874), by Thomas P. Fenner and Hampton Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• De geschiedenis van de Jubilee-Zangers : met hunne liederen (Het Evangelish Verbond, 1877), by Carel Steven Adama van Scheltema (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rhapsodie nègre : for orchestra and piano (G. Schirmer, 1922), by John Powell and Edwin Hughes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty Negro spirituals (Theodore Presser Co., 1927), by Clarence Cameron White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk songs of American Negro. Number one (Nashville, Tenn. : Published by John W. Work and Frederick J. Work, [1907], 1907), by John Wesley Work and Frederick J. Work (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christy's Panorama songster : containing the songs as sung by the Christy, Campbell, Pierce's minstrels, and Sable brothers. (W. H. Murphy, 1850), by Edwin Pearce Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Henry, the rambling black Ulysses (A. Whitman & company, 1942), by James Cloyd Bowman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Singing soldiers (C. Scribner's Sons, 1927), by John Jacob Niles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eight negro songs from Bedford Co., Virginia (Enoch & Sons, 1923), by Francis Harris Abbot and Alfred J. Swan (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)
• Folk song of the American Negro (Tenn., Press of Fisk University, 1915), by John Wesley Work (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings (D. Appleton and company, 1908), by Joel Chandler Harris and A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slave songs of the United States; the complete original collection (136 songs) (Oak Publications, 1965), by William Francis Allen and Irving Schlein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Negro art, music and rhyme, for young folks, Book II. (The Associated Publishers, inc., 1938), by Helen Adele Whiting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Remus and his friends; old plantation stories, songs, and ballads, with sketches of Negro character (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1892), by Joel Chandler Harris and A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Gabe Tucker; or, Reflections, song, and sentiment in the quarters. (J.B. Lippincott & co., 1883), by J. A. Macon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro and his songs; a study of typical Negro songs in the South (The University of North Carolina press, 1925), by Howard Washington Odum and Guy Benton Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minstrel songs, old and new : a collection of world-wide, famous minstrel and plantation songs, including the most popular of the celebrated Foster melodies : arranged with piano-forte accompaniment (Oliver Ditson, 1882), by Stephen Collins Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cabin and plantation songs as sung by the Hampton students (G. P. Putnam, 1880), by Thomas Putnam Fenner and Hampton Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jubilee and plantation songs : characteristic favorites, as sung by the Hampton students, Jubilee singers, Fisk University students, and other companies : also, a number of new and pleasing selections (Oliver Ditson, 1887), by Fisk University, Jubilee Singers, and Hampton Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• The second book of negro spirituals (Viking Press, 1926), by James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six Negro melodies (Oliver Ditson, 1905), by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings (D. Appleton and company, 1920), by Joel Chandler Harris, E. W. Kemble, and A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Were you there? Negro spiritual (G. Ricordi, 1924), by H. T. Burleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School, for training colored teachers, at Tuskegee, Alabama ... Its story and its songs. (Normal School Press, 1884), by Helen Wilhelmina Ludlow and R. H. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hampton and its students. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1874), by M. F. Armstrong, Thomas P. Fenner, Helen W. Ludlow, and Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) (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)
• The liberty minstrel (Leavitt & Alden, 1845), by George W. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American comic songster : a collection of all the wit, humour, eccentricity, and originality in song, which the present day has produced. (J.G. Shaw, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs of the old South ; verses and drawings (Doubleday, Page, 1901), by Howard Weeden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Remus : his songs and his sayings (Appleton, 1902), by Joel Chandler Harris and A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Remus : his songs and his sayings (D. Appleton, 1898), by Joel Chandler Harris, A. B. Frost, and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old mammy's lullaby songs With an instrumental medley. (Pepper Pub., 1901), by Gertrude Manly Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Plantation lullabies (Duncan Lith. Co., 1898), by Canadian Jubilee Singers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Massa's in the cold, cold, ground (Ticknor and Co., 1889), by Stephen Collins Foster, A. V. S. Anthony, Frank Myrick, and Charles Copeland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Cotton field melodies. (Blackmar & Bro., 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rodeheaver's plantation melodies (Rodeheaver, 1918), by Homer A. Rodeheaver (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emancipation of Negro music. ([Hampton, Va., 1918), by R. Nathaniel Dett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plantation melodies old and new : words by R.E. Phillips, J.E. Campbell, P.L. Dunbar (G. Schirmer, 1901), by H. T. Burleigh and James Edwin Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro dances : five pieces for the pianoforte (H.W. Gray ; sole agents for Novello, 1914), by Henry F. B. Gilbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hampton and its students (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874), by M. F. Armstrong, Helen W. Ludlow, and Thomas P. Fenner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Slave songs of the United States (P. Smith, 1867), by William Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison, and Charles Pickard Ware (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ma Sarraphine (The Examiner, 1898), by Martha Aspden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Song of the Negro boatman (Published by Oliver Ditson & Co., 1862), by Edward Wiebé and John Greenleaf Whittier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The most popular plantation songs (Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, 1911), by Gilbert Clifford Noble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Original American folk songs as sung by the Glazier's Carolinians the oldest jubilee organization. (Glazier Lyceum Bureau, 1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jubilee songs and plantation melodies ([H.B. Thearle, 1885), by J. J. Sawyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• other day I chanced to roam beside an old log cabin home (Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., 1918), by Harry Carroll (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jubilee songs : as sung by the Jubilee singers (Biglow & Main, 1884), by George L. White, Theodore F. Seward, and Jubilee Singers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A coon lullaby : song (Chappell, 1906), by Teresa Del Riego (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A little bit o' honey (Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son, 1917), by Carrie Jacobs-Bond and W. G. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sol' down de stream (G. Schirmer, 1912), by Fay Foster and Paul Laurence Dunbar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mammy's lullaby (W.H. Willis & Co., 1904), by Abbie Norton Jamison and Howard Weeden (page images at HathiTrust)
• I had an old black Mammy who used to sing to me (John Church, 1910), by Harriet Ware and Laura Spencer Portor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Li'l black sheep (Clayton F. Summy Co., 1914), by Vera Brady Shipman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mah Lindy Lou (G. Schirmer, 1920), by Lily Strickland (page images at HathiTrust)
• I want yer, ma honey, yes, I want yer mighty badly (T. B. Harms & Co., 1895), by Fay Templeton (page images at HathiTrust)
• While walkin' down de street (T.B. Harms & Co., 1896), by Fay Templeton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hush a bye my baby your mammy'll soon be nigh (Thiebes-Stierlin Music Co., 1896), by Edith Kingsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings (New York : Grossett & Dunlap, [1921], 1921), by Joel Chandler Harris, Samuel Inman Cooper, Augusta Skeen Cooper, Julian LaRose Harris, Julia Collier Harris, and A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings (D. Appleton and Company, 1895), by Joel Chandler Harris and A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ole mammy's lullaby songs. With an instrumental medley. (Pepper Pub. Co., 1901), by Gertrude Manly Jones (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)
• In old Alabama : being the chronicles of Miss Mouse, the Little Black Merchant (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903), by Anne Hobson, Carol McPherson, and Page & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious folk-songs of the Southern negroes (s.n., 1909), by Howard Washington Odum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious folk songs of the Negro : as sung on the plantations. (The Institute Press, 1916), by Thomas P. Fenner and Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wood's new plantation melodies, containing a selection of the most popular choruses, quartettes, glees, trios, duets, songs, parodies, burlesques, etc. Also, funny stories, satirical jokes ... as told by the celebrated E. Horn, at Wood's Ministrel Hall ... (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1862), by M. C. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fremont told us, when this war was first begun (New York : Pub. by C. Magnus, Franfort St, [1863?], 1863), by Michel Fabre, Charles Magnus, and Michel Fabre Library (Emory University. General Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colored brigade. ([Philadelphia] : J.H. Johnson, song publisher, stationer and printer, No. 7 N. 10th St., Phila, [between 1862 and 1876], 1862) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colored volunteer ([Philadelphia] : Johnson, song publisher, 7 N. 10th St., Phila, [between 1863 and 1865], 1863), by Tom Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colored volunteer ([Philadelphia] : Published by Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments, [between 1863 and 1865], 1863), by Tom Craig and Pa.) Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments (Philadelphia (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)
• Uncle Gabe Tucker : or, Reflections, song, and sentiment in the quarters (J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), by J. A. Macon (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)
• Cabin and plantation songs : as sung by the Hampton students (New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1877., 1877), by Randall K. Burkett, Thomas P. Fenner, and Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cabin and plantation songs as sung by the Hampton students. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1876), by Thomas P. Fenner and Hampton Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Songs and spirituals of Negro composition for revivals and congregational singing. (Chicago : Overton-Hygienic Co., [1921], 1921), by Ill.) Overton-Hygienic Mfg. Co. (Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings. (Meredith Press, 1921), by Joel Chandler Harris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Deep river : male chorus : old negro melody (Ricordi, 1917), by H. T. Burleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gospel pearls (Nashville : Sunday School Publishing Board, National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., [1921], 1921), by Kenny Jackson Williams, Sue Bailey Thurman, Howard Thurman, and National Baptist Convention of the United States of America. Sunday School Publishing Board. Music Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings (New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1901., 1901), by Joel Chandler Harris and A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro spirituals : arranged for solo voice (G. Ricordi, 1922), by H. T. Burleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collection of twenty-five selected famous Negro spirituals (Robbins-Engel, 1924), by Hugo Frey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk songs of the American Negro. Number one (Work Bros. & Hart Co., 1907), by John Wesley Work and Frederick J. Work (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hampton and its students (New-York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1875., 1875), by M. F. Armstrong, Randall K. Burkett, Thomas P. Fenner, and Helen W. Ludlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Soul echoes. No. 2 : a collection of songs for religious meetings (Philadelphia : Soul Echoes Pub. Co., [1909], 1909), by Levi Jenkins Coppin, Charles Albert Tindley, George Lincoln Blackwell, Josiah Samuel Caldwell, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Publication House, and Soul Echoes Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and official program of the National Baptist Convention, Philadelphia, September 1903 ([Nashville?] : [National Baptist Pub. Board?], [1903?]], 1903), by National Baptist Convention of the United States of America, William Rosborough, and National Baptist Publishing Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk songs of the American Negro : no. 1 (Nashville, Tenn. : Work Bros. & Hart Co., [1907], 1907), by Nellie R. Pelkinton, John Wesley Work, Frederick J. Work, and Works Bros. & Hart Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nigger melodies : being the only entire and complete work of Ethiopian songs extant. (New-York : Nafis & Cornish ; St. Louis, Mo. : Van Dein & MacDonald, [between 1842 and 1849], 1842) (page images at HathiTrust)
• After 50 years (Cincinnati, Ohio : Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, [1916?], 1916), by Mildred Coughlin, Ralph Welles Keeler, and Freedmen's Aid Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mellows : a chronicle of unknown singers. (A. and C. Boni, 1925), by R. Emmet Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gather roun ye darkies all (H.M. Higgins, 1862), by Joseph Philbrick Webster, Sanford Fillmore Bennett, and United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Abe has gone and did it, boys (H.M. Higgins, 1862), by Joseph Philbrick Webster and Sanford Fillmore Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Don't you see de black clouds risin' ober yonder (Cleveland : S. Brainard's Sons Co., [between 1866 and 1873], 1866), by Henry C. Work (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christy's panorama songster : containing the songs as sung (William H. Murphy, 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• New songs of paradise : a collection of popular and religious songs for Sunday Schools, prayer-meetings, Epworth League meetings and social gatherings ([Philadelphia?] : Paradise Pub. Co., [1916], 1916), by Charles Albert Tindley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of music programs in private Negro colleges. (South Carolina State College, 1962), by Lawrence C. Bryant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings (D. Appleton-Century, 1940), by Joel Chandler Harris and A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings : the folk-lore of the old plantation (New York : Appleton, 1894., 1894), by Joel Chandler Harris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christy's plantation melodies. ... (Fisher & Brother, 1851), by Edwin Pearce Christy, Wm. Ham. Hall, and Fisher & Brother (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Remus : his songs and sayings (Hawthorn Books, 1921), by Joel Chandler Harris and A. B. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious folk songs of the negro : as sung on the plantations. (The Institute Press, 1909), by Thomas P. Fenner and Hampton Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious folk songs of the Negro as sung on the plantations. (The Institute Press, 1909), by Thomas P. Fenner and Hampton Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pearls of paradise : part one : a collection of the song-gems of the ages, containing hymns and music suited for every service of the Christian Church (Nashville, Tenn. : National Baptist Pub. Board, [1901], 1901), by D. E. Dortch, W. G. Cooper, and National Baptist Publishing Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Jubilee Singers : with their songs (Houghton, Osgood, 1880), by J. B. T. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frank Converse's "Old Cremona" songster; containing a choice and popular collection of banjo songs, stump speeches, sentimental ballads ... With music. (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1863), by Frank B. Converse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The second book of negro spirituals (The Viking Press, 1926), by James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cabin and plantation songs, as sung by the Hampton students (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1879), by Thomas P. Fenner and Hampton Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jubiläumssänger : auserwählte amerikanische Negerlieder in deutschem Gewand, nebst andern beliebten Hymnen (C.F. Spitler, 1878), by Ernst Gebhardt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro folk-songs (G. Schirmer, 1918), by Natalie Curtis Burlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jubilee songs. (Houghton Mifflin, 1881), by J. B. T. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religious Folk-Songs of the Southern Negroes, by Howard Washington Odum (Gutenberg ebook)
• Music and Some Highly Musical People, by James M. Trotter (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Liberty Minstrel, by George Washington Clark (Gutenberg ebook)

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