African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism
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African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism
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African Americans
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- Folk song of the American Negro, John Wesley Work
- More than dancing, essays on Afro-American music and musicians, edited by Irene V. Jackson ; prepared under the auspices of the Center for Ethnic Music, Howard University
- From cakewalks to concert halls, an illustrated history of African American popular music from 1895 to 1930, by Thomas L. Morgan and William Barlow
- Sharecropper's troubadour, John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and the African American song tradition, Michael K. Honey
- Exorcizing evil, a womanist perspective on the spirituals, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
- African American jazz and rap, social and philosophical examinations of Black expressive behavior, edited by James L. Conyers, Jr. ; introduction by James B. Stewart
- Race music, black cultures from behop to hip hop, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr
- Just my soul responding, rhythm and blues, Black consciousness, and race, Brian Ward
- Negro slave songs in the United States., With a foreword by Ray Allen Billington
- Spreadin' rhythm around, black popular songwriters, 1880-1930, David A. Jasen and Gene Jones
- "Somebody's calling my name", Black sacred music and social change, Wyatt Tee Walker
- Negro workaday songs,, by Howard W. Odum and Guy B. Johnson
- Folk culture on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, by Guy B. Johnson
- Dvořák's prophecy, and the vexed fate of Black classical music, Joseph Horowitz ; [foreword by George Shirley]
- My black country, chasing the hidden roots and flowers of black country music genius, Alice Randall
- Black music, LeRoi Jones [i.e. I. A. Baraka]
- The power of Black music, interpreting its history from Africa to the United States, Samuel A. Floyd, Jr
- Jazz, a crash course, Simon Adams
- Flyboy in the buttermilk, essays on contemporary America, Greg Tate
- The death of rhythm and blues, Nelson George
- Boogaloo, the quintessence of American popular music, Arthur Kempton
- Negro folk music, U.S.A
- The spirituals and the blues, an interpretation, James H. Cone
- Out of sight, the rise of African American popular music, 1889-1895, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff
- Deep river, reflections on the religious insight of certain of the Negro spirituals, Howard Thurman ; illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones
- Digging, the Afro-American soul of American classical music, Amiri Baraka
- Negro musicians and their music, Maud Cuney Hare ; introduction by Josephine Harreld Love
- The jazz cadence of American culture, edited by Robert G. O'Meally
- Music is history, Questlove with Ben Greenman
- On Highway 61, music, race, and the evolution of cultural freedom, Dennis McNally
- The music of black Americans, a history, Eileen Southern
- From swing to soul, an illustrated history of African American popular music from 1930 to 1960, by William Barlow and Cheryl Finley
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