African Americans -- Music
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African Americans -- Music
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- Got to be something here, the rise of the Minneapolis sound, Andrea Swensson
- Reflections on Afro-American music, Dominique-René De Lerma ; with contributions from Richard L. Abrams and others
- The songs of Cole and Johnson Brothers, as selected by J. Rosamund Johnson ; with a foreword by Thomas L. Riis
- The books of American Negro spirituals, including The book of American Negro spirituals and the second book of Negro spirituals, by James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson
- American ballads and folk songs, [compiled by] John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax ; with a foreword by George Lyman Kittredge
- The new Negroes and their music, the success of the Harlem Renaissance, Jon Michael Spencer
- Water boy, a Negro convict song, arr. by Avery Robinson
- Black song, the forge and the flame : the story of how the Afro-American spiritual was hammered out, John Lovell, Jr
- Talking 'bout your mama, the dozens, snaps, and the deep roots of rap, Elijah Wald
- American Negro songs, 230 folk songs and spirituals, religious and secular, [compiled by] John W. Work
- The ministry of music in the Black church, by J. Wendell Mapson, Jr
- Step it down, games, plays, songs, and stories from the Afro-American heritage, Bessie Jones and Bess Lomax Hawes
- Wattstax, a Stax Films/Wolper Pictures production ; directed by Mel Stuart ; produced by Larry Shaw, Mel Stuart
- Wade in the water, the wisdom of the spirituals, Arthur C. Jones
- The Leadbelly songbook, the ballads, blues, and folksongs of Huddie Ledbetter, edited by Moses Asch and Alan Lomax ; [musical transcriptions by Jerry Silverman ; introductory essays and biographical sketches by Frederic Ramsey, Jr., Charles Edward Smith, Alan Lomax, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger ; foreword by Moses Asch]
- Steel drivin' man, John Henry, the untold story of an American legend, Scott Reynolds Nelson
- The Negro and his music., Negro art : past and present, Alain Locke
- Slave spirituals and the Jubilee Singers, by Michael L. Cooper
- How sweet it is, a songwriter's reflections on music, Motown and the mystery of the muse, Lamont Dozier with Scott B. Bomar
- How sweet the sound, African-American songs for children, selected by Wade and Cheryl Hudson ; illustrated by Floyd Cooper
- Kwanzaa songs for everyone, Karen Griner Smith
- Roots of rhythm, a production of Cultural Research and Communication, Inc. in association with KCET Los Angeles ; produced and directed by Eugene Rosow and Howard Dratch ; written by Linda Post, Howard Dratch, Eugene Rosow
- Plenty good room, a Lenten Bible study based on African American spirituals, Marilyn E. Thornton with Lewis V. Baldwin
- Louie Bluie, Superior Pictures presents a film by Terry Zwigoff ; produced and directed by Terry Zwigoff
- Walk together children, Black American spirituals, selected and illustrated by Ashley Bryan
- Ev'ry time I feel the spirit, 101 best-loved psalms, gospel hymns, and spiritual songs of the African-American church, Gwendolin Sims Warren
- Hush songs, African American lullabies, Joyce Carol Thomas ; illustrations by Brenda Joysmith
- Songs of protest and civil rights, [compiled by] Jerry Silverman
- Crossroads, Tracy Chapman
- The dozens, a history of rap's mama, Elijah Wald
- Secret meeting, Kwanzaa songs and city sounds, Kwelismith
- Continuum, the first songbook of Sweet Honey in the Rock, compiled and edited by Ysaye M. Barnwell with Sweet Honey in the Rock ; transcriptions by J. David Moore and Catherine Roma
- I got shoes, Sweet Honey in the Rock
- One day it'll all make sense, a memoir, Common with Adam Bradley
- Jazz internationalism, literary Afro-modernism and the cultural politics of Black music, John Lowney
- From ragtime to hip-hop, a century of Black American music, Adam Woog
- The jazz cadence of American culture, edited by Robert G. O'Meally
- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, Negro spiritual, arr. by H.T. Burleigh
- Anthology of art songs by Black American composers, compiled by Willis C. Patterson ; preface by George Shirley ; introduction by Wendell P. Whalum
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