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Minstrel music

Here are entered musical compositions. This heading is not qualified by medium of performance. For minstrel music in a specific medium, an additional heading is assigned for the medium of performance.

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• American minstrel music
• American minstrelsy
• Minstrel show songs
• Minstrel songs
• Minstrelsy, American

• 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 (Boston et al.: O. Ditson and Co., c1882), contrib. by Stephen Collins Foster (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 (Boston et al.: O. Ditson and Co., c1910), contrib. by Stephen Collins Foster (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Clog Dancing Made Easy, by Henry Tucker (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Oh, Lady! Lady!! (with photos, original cast list, and piano-vocal score; New York: T. B. Harms Co., c1918), by Jerome Kern, P. G. Wodehouse, and Guy Bolton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bones: His Anecdotes and Goaks (London: C. H. Clarke, ca. 1870), by G. W. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Minstrel Encyclopedia (Boston: W. H. Baker Co., 1921), by Walter Ben Hare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro Minstrels: A Complete Guide to Negro Minstrelsy, Containing Recitations, Jokes, Crossfires, Conundrums, Riddles, Stump Speeches, Ragtime and Sentimental Songs, Etc., Including Hints on Organizing and Successfully Presenting a Performance (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by Jack Haverly (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• New Minstrel and Black Face Joke Book, by Leading Footlight Favorites: The Best Monologues, Endmen's Gags, Jokes, Etc. As Delivered by the Best Known Fun Makers on the Minstrel and Vaudeville Stage (cover title "Funny Stories"; inner running title "New Minstrel Joke Book"; Baltimore: I. and M. Ottenheimer, c1907) (page images at Harvard)
• The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia (revised edition, c1905), by Frank Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minstrelsy (San Francisco Theatre Research v15, monograph 25; 1939), ed. by Lawrence Estavan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Minstrel Guide and Joke Book (Baltimore: I. and M. Ottenhiemer, c1912), ed. by Paul E. Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Up-to-Date Minstrel Jokes: A Collection of the Latest and Most Popular Jokes, Talks, Stump-Speeches, Conundrums and Monologues for Amateur Minstrels, Many of Which Have Never Before Appeared in Print; Also, a Special Department of Female Minstrel Jokes (with 4 appended farces; Boston: Up-to-Date Pub. Co., c1902), ed. by Herman Henry Wheeler, contrib. by George H. Coes (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Public Domain Song Anthology, With Modern and Traditional Harmonization (Charlottesville, VA: Aperio Press, 2020), ed. by David Berger and Chuck Israels (multiple formats at Aperio)

• If I Were a Weaver of Dreams (piano-vocal score; Chicago and New York: McKinley Music Co., c1920), by Jeannette Duryea and Margaret McIvor Tyndall
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Roadrunner (Australian rock magazine, 1978-1983) (partial serial archives)

• Woodstock Scholarship: An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), by Jeffrey N. Gatten (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Woodstock Scholarship: An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2016), by Jeffrey N. Gatten (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Contemporary Carioca: Technologies of Mixing in a Brazilian Music Scene (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2012), by Frederick Moehn (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

• 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)

• 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)

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

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

• Abracadabra! The Complete Story of the Beatles' Revolver, by Ray Newman (PDF with commentary in the UK)

• Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Philip Auslander (page images at HathiTrust)

• Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San Francisco (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), by Nadya Zimmerman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Refried Elvis: The Rise of the Mexican Counterculture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), by Eric Zolov (HTML at UC Press)

• Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2005), by David Carson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Louie Louie: The History And Mythology of The World's Most Famous Rock 'n' Roll Song (New York: Hyperion, c1993), by Dave Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2018), by Youjeong Oh (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South African Music (Somerset West, SA: African Minds, c2008), by Max Mojapelo, ed. by Sello Galane (PDF with commentary at African Minds)

• Sounds of the South: A Report and Selected Papers from a Conference on the Collecting and Collections of Southern Traditional Music, Held in Chapel Hill, April 6-8, 1989, to Celebrate the Opening of the Southern Folklife Collection with the John Edwards Memorial Collection in the Manuscripts Department of the Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC: Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, 1991), ed. by Daniel W. Patterson, contrib. by Michael T. Casey, George M. Holt, Bess Lomax Hawes, Bill C. Malone, Paul Oliver, Thomas Carter, Ray Funk, Norm Cohen, Tim West, Barry Jean Ancelet, Allen Tullos, David E. Whisnant, and Archie Green (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)

• Thoughtrave: An Interdimensional Conversation with Lady Gaga (Punctum Books, c2016), by Robert Craig Baum (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

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

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

• Spin (online issues from 1985-2012) (partial serial archives)

• Punk Planet, ed. by Daniel Sinker (full serial archives)

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

• Listening to Popular Music: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Led Zeppelin (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Theodore Gracyk (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tracks on the Trail: Popular Music, Race, and the US Presidency (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Dana Gorzelany-Mostak (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Bytes and Backbeats: Repurposing Music in the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Steve Savage (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), by Francesca T. Royster (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• American Popular Music (abridged from 2007 OUP publication; Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2008), by Larry Starr and Christopher Alan Waterman (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• 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)

• 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)

• Head Citations (Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 2002), by Kenneth Goldsmith (HTML here at Penn)

• Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), by Francesca T. Royster (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.