African American Music Reference
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The series African American Music Reference represents a set of related resources, especially of a specified kind, found in University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries.
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African American Music Reference
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The series African American Music Reference represents a set of related resources, especially of a specified kind, found in University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries.
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- Work songs
- 100 ragtime classics
- 35 Song hits by great black songwriters : Bert Williams, Eubie Blake, Ernest Hogan and others
- 78 blues : folksongs and phonographs in the American South
- A new anthology of art songs by African American composers
- A right to sing the blues : African Americans, Jews, and American popular song
- A trumpet around the corner : a story of New Orleans jazz
- Africa and the blues
- African American music : a chronology : 1619-1995
- African roots
- Afro-American folksongs : a study in racial and national music
- Ballads
- Barrelhouse blues : location recording and early traditions of the blues
- Basic jazz on long play
- Becoming Jimi Hendrix : from southern crossroads to psychedelic London, the untold story of a musical genius
- Been here and gone
- Billie Holiday : wishing on the moon
- Bird lives : the high life and hard times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker
- Black diva of the thirties : the life of Ruby Elzy
- Black music
- Black noise : rap music and black culture in contemporary America
- Black talk
- Blues
- Blues Boy : the life and music of B.B. King
- Blues people : Negro music in white America
- Blues who's who : a biographical dictionary of blues singers
- Brother Ray : Ray Charles' own story
- Cabin and plantation songs as sung by the Hampton Students
- Calhoun plantation songs
- Celebrating Bird : the triumph of Charlie Parker
- Children's songs
- Christmas songs
- Cross the water blues : African American music in Europe
- Dan Emmett and the rise of early Negro minstrelsy
- Dancing in the street : Motown and the cultural politics of Detroit
- Deep river; reflections on the religious insight of certain of the Negro spirituals
- Dexter Gordon : a musical biography
- Downhome gospel : African American spiritual activism in wiregrass country
- Duke Ellington : music is my mistress
- Earl Hooker, blues master
- Echoes of Africa in folk songs of the Americas
- Ella Fitzgerald : the complete biography
- Eric Dolphy : a musical biography and discography
- Folk song of the American Negro
- Folk songs of the American Negro
- Freedom is, freedom ain't : jazz and the making of the sixties
- Glorious days and nights : a jazz memoir
- Gospel songs
- Hip hop America
- Hip hop matters : politics, pop culture, and the struggle for the soul of a movement
- His eye is on the sparrow : an autobiography
- Holler if you hear me : searching for Tupac Shakur
- I dream a world : the operas of William Grant Still
- Images : iconography of music in African-American culture, 1770s-1920s
- In search of the blues
- Jazz : America's classical music
- Jazz and death : medical profiles of jazz greats
- Jazz and its discontents : a Francis Davis reader
- Jazz consciousness : music, race, and humanity
- Jazz from the beginning
- Jazz in the bittersweet blues of life
- Jazz matters : reflections on the music and some of its makers
- Jazz style in Kansas City and the Southwest
- Jazzwomen : conversations with twenty-one musicians
- Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy : Gennett Studios and the birth of recorded jazz
- Jelly's blues : the life, music, and redemption of Jelly Roll Morton
- John Coltrane
- Kennedy's blues : African-American blues and gospel songs on JFK
- Kind of blue
- Know what I mean? : reflections on hip-hop
- Ladies of soul
- Lester leaps in : the life and times of Lester "Pres" Young
- Let the world listen right : the Mississippi Delta hip-hop story
- Like young : jazz and pop, youth and middle age
- Live at the Village Vanguard
- Louis : the Louis Armstrong story, 1900-1971
- Lyrics from cotton land
- Making beats : the art of sample-based hip-hop
- Mellows : a chronicle of unknown singers
- Mercy, mercy me : the art, loves, and demons of Marvin Gaye
- Miles to go, the lost years : an intimate memoir of life on the road with Miles Davis 1973-1983
- Mingus, a critical biography
- Mississippi John Hurt : his life, his times, his blues
- Music & the making of a new South
- Music and some highly musical people : containing brief chapters on I. A description of music. II. The music of nature. III. A glance at the history of music. IV. The power, beauty, and uses of music : following which are given sketches of the lives of remarkable musicians of the colored race : with portraits, and an appendix containing copies of music composed by colored men
- Music of the common tongue : survival and celebration in African American music
- My songs : Aframerican religious folk songs
- Negro folk music U.S.A
- Negro musicians and their music
- Nobody knows where the blues come from : lyrics and history
- Nuthin' but a "G" thang : the culture and commerce of gangsta rap
- On the trail of Negro folk-songs
- One o'clock jump : the unforgettable history of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils
- Out of sight : the rise of African American popular music, 1889-1895
- Outlaws & outcasts
- Presence and pleasure : the funk grooves of James Brown and Parliament
- Ragged but right : black traveling shows, "coon songs," and the dark pathway to blues and jazz
- Ragtime song and dance
- Religious folk songs of the Negro as sung on the plantations
- Religious folk-songs of the negro as sung at Hampton institute
- Rhythm-a-ning : jazz tradition and innovation in the '80s
- Rolling along in song : a chronological survey of American Negro music, with eighty-seven arrangements of Negro songs
- Roosevelt's blues : African-American blues and gospel songs on FDR
- Rythm oil : a journey through the music of the American South
- Saint Helena Island spirituals
- Sam Myers : the blues is my story
- Satchmo : the genius of Louis Armstrong
- Satchmo blows up the world : jazz ambassadors play the Cold War
- Seventy Negro spirituals
- Shout, sister, shout! : the untold story of rock-and-roll trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe
- Showman : the life and music and Perry George Lowery
- Singing in my soul : black gospel music in a secular age
- Singing soldiers
- Slave songs
- Slave songs of the United States
- Songs of protest and civil rights
- Soul of the man : Bobby Blue Bland
- Soul on soul : the life and music of Mary Lou Williams
- Spirituals
- Staging race : black performers in turn of the century America
- Swamp pop : Cajun and Creole rhythm and blues
- That's got 'em : the life and music of Wilbur C. Sweatman
- The 'hood comes first : race, space and place in rap and hip-hop
- The Black composer speaks
- The Great jazz pianists : speaking of their lives and music
- The Negro and his music
- The Negro and his songs : a study of typical Negro songs in the South
- The Negro spiritual speaks of life and death : being the Ingersoll Lecture on the Immortality of Man, 1947
- The Pilgrim Jubilees
- The Supremes : a saga of Motown dreams, success and betrayal
- The Velvet Lounge : on late Chicago jazz
- The anti-slavery harp : a collection of songs for anti-slavery meetings
- The beat : go-go music from Washington, D.C.
- The big book of blues : a biographical encyclopedia
- The bluesman : the musical heritage of black men and women in the Americas
- The color of jazz : race and representation in postwar American culture
- The death of rhythm & blues
- The devil's son-in-law : the story of Peetie Wheatstraw & his songs
- The hip hop generation : young Blacks and the crisis in African American culture
- The hip hop wars : what we talk about when we talk about hip hop--and why it matters
- The history of the blues
- The holy profane : religion in Black popular music
- The masters of bebop : a listener's guide
- The new blue music : changes in rhythm & blues, 1950-1999
- The singing campaign for ten thousand pounds : or, the Jubilee Singers in Great Britain
- The sounds of slavery : discovering African American history through songs, sermons, and speech
- The story of the Jubilee Singers : with their songs
- The treasury of Negro spirituals
- There's a god on the mic : the true 50 greatest MCs
- Third coast : OutKast, Timbaland, and how hip-hop became a southern thing
- Thriller : the musical life of Michael Jackson
- Total chaos : the art and aesthetics of hip-hop
- Trumpet records : diamonds on Farish Street
- West Indian and Calypso songs
- What's the use of walking if there's a freight train going your way? : black hoboes & their songs : profusely illustrated
- Woke me up this morning : Black gospel singers and the gospel life
- Woman with guitar : Memphis Minnie's blues
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