Black History Month LibGuide: Music

Blacks in classical music : a bibliographical guide to composers, performers, and ensembles by John Gray

A blues bibliography by Rob Ford

Brass music of black composers : a bibliography by Aaron Horne

A Catalog of Music Written in Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr by Anthony McDonald (Editor)

A Catalog of Music Written in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr by Anthony McDonald

Choral arrangements of the African-American spirituals : choral arrangements of the African-American spirituals : historical overview and annotated listings by Patricia J. Trice

Creative improvised music : an international bibliography of the Jazz avant-garde, 1959-present. 2019 by John Gray

An Index to African-American spirituals for the solo voice by Kathleen A. Abromeit

Keyboard music of black composers by Aaron Horne

Spirituals : a multidisciplinary bibliography for research and performance by Kathleen A. Abromeit

String music of black composers by Aaron Horne

Woodwind Music of Black Composers by Aaron Horne

Afro-Cuban Music by John Gray

Blues, Funk, Rhythm and Blues, Soul, Hip Hop, and Rap by Eddie S. Meadows

Carnival, Calypso and Steel Pan by John Gray

Fifteen Black American Composers by Alice Tischler

Global Jazz by Clarence Bernard Henry

Jazz by Eddie S. Meadows

Jazz Research and Performance Materials by Eddie S. Meadows (Editor)

The Jazz Standards by Ted Gioia

Singing down the Barriers by Emery Stephens; Caroline Helton

Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians by Eileen Southern

Encyclopedia of African American Music by Emmett G. Price (Editor); Tammy L. Kernodle (Editor); Horace J. Maxille (Editor)

Encyclopedia of African American Music by Emmett G. Price (Editor); Tammy L. Kernodle (Editor); Horace J. Maxile (Editor)

Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music by W. K. McNeil (Editor)

An Encyclopedia of South Carolina Jazz and Blues Musicians by Benjamin Franklin

Hip Hop Around the World by Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith (Editor); Anthony J. Fonseca (Editor)

Hip hop around the world: an encyclopedia by Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith (Editor); Anthony J. Fonseca (Editor)

International Dictionary of Black Composers by Samuel A. Floyd (Editor)

Access, diversity, equity and inclusion in cultural organizations : insights from the careers of executive opera managers of color in the US by Antonio C. Cuyler

African American Concert Singers Before 1950 by Darryl Glenn Nettles

Autobiographical reminiscences of African-American classical singers, 1853-present : introducing their spiritual heritage into the concert repertoire by Elizabeth Nash

Black Classical Musicians and Composers, 1500-2000 by Rodreguez King-Dorset

Black opera : history, power, engagement / Naomi André by Naomi Andre

Digging : the Afro-American soul of American classical music by Amiri Baraka

Dvořák's prophecy : and the vexed fate of Black classical music by Joseph Horowitz

Dvořák to Duke Ellington : a conductor explores America's music and its African American roots by Maurice Peress

Dvořák to Duke Ellington : a conductor explores America's music and its African American roots by Maurice Peress

From Spirituals to symphonies : African-American women composers and their music by Helen Walker-Hill

Musical Landscapes in Color by Bill Banfield

Singing like Germans : Black musicians in the land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahm by Kira Thurman

South Side Impresarios by Samantha Ege

Black Masculinity and Hip-Hop Music : black gay men who rap by Xinling Li

Build : the power of hip-hop diplomacy in a divided world by Mark Katz

Contemporary Black Urban Music by Ron Westray

Deathlife by Anthony B. Pinn

Distillation of Sound by Eric Abbey

Fight the power : law and policy through hip-hop songs by Gregory S. Parks (Editor); Frank Rudy Cooper (Editor)

Flow : the rhythmic voice in rap music. by Mitchell Ohriner

Freedom Moves by H. Samy Alim (Editor); Jeff Chang (Editor); Casey Wong (Editor)

Hip-Hop Is History by Questlove; Ben Greenman (As told to)

Hip-Hop Revolution : the culture and politics of rap by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar

Hip hop Africa : new African music in a globalizing world by Eric Charry (Editor)

Hip hop at Europe's edge : music, agency, and social change by Alexandra Baladina

How Hip Hop Became Hit Pop by Amy Coddington

In the heart of the beat : the poetry of rap by Alexs Pate

The Oxford handbook of hip hop studies by Jason Lee Oakes (Editor) and Justin D. Burton (Editor)

Posthuman rap by Justin Adams Burton

Queer Voices in Hip Hop by Lauron J. Kehrer

Rap and hip hop culture by Fernando Orejuela

Rap and politics : a case study of Panther, Gangster, and Hyphy discourses in Oakland, CA (1965-2010) by Lavar Pope

Rap music and street consciousness by Cheryl Lynette Keyes

Rapper's Deluxe by Todd Boyd; 12:01 A. M. - Office of Hassan Rahim (Designed by)

Sampling, Biting, and the Postmodern Subversion of Hip Hop by Jim Vernon

Black country music : listening for revolutions by Francesca T. Royster

Black diamond queens : African American women and rock and roll by Maureen Mahon

Black power music! : protest songs, message music, and the Black power movement by Reiland Rabaka

Blacksound by Matthew D. Morrison

Citizenship on Catfish Row : race and nation in American popular culture by Geoffrey Galt Harpham

Fictional blues : narrative self-invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White by Kimberly Mack

Group harmony : the Black urban roots of rhythm & blues by Stuart L. Goosman

A Hound Dog Tale by Ben Wynne

Indigenous African Popular Music, Volume 1 by Abiodun Salawu (Editor); Israel A. Fadipe (Editor)

The meaning of soul : Black music and resilience since the 1960s by Emily J. Lordi

Night Train to Nashville by Michael Gray (Editor)

The Product of Our Souls : ragtime, race, and the birth of the Manhattan musical marketplace by David W. Gilbert

Right to Rock : the Black Rock Coalition and the cultural politics of race by Maureen Mahon

Shine bright : a very personal history of Black women in pop by Danyel Smith

Songbooks by Eric Weisbard

Sonic Sovereignty by Liz Przybylski

Soul in Seoul : African American popular music and K-pop by Crystal S. Anderson

Sounds from the other side : Afro-South Asian collaborations in Black popular music by Elliott H. Powell

The Black church : this is our story, this is our song by Henry Louis Gates

Conjuring Freedom : music and masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army" by Johari Jabir

Flaming? : the peculiar theopolitics of fire and desire in black male gospel performance by Alisha Lola Jones

Healing for the soul : Richard Smallwood, the vamp, and the gospel imagination by Braxton D. Shelley

Images of the Apocalypse in African American Blues and Spirituals : destruction in this land by Malgorzata Ziólek-Sowinska

A new perspective for the use of dialect in African American spirituals : history, context, and linguistics by Felicia Raphael Marie Barber; Andre J. Thomas (Foreword by)

Singing in the spirit : African-American sacred quartets in New York City by Ray Allen

So you want to sing spirituals : a guide for performers by Randye Jones

Spirituals and the birth of a black entertainment industry by Sandra Jean Graham

To do this, you must know how : music pedagogy in the black gospel quartet tradition by Doug Seroff; Lynn Abbott

Wasn't that a mighty day : African American blues and gospel songs on disaster by Luigi Monge; David Evans (Foreword by)

When Sunday comes : gospel music in the soul and hip-hop eras by Claudrena N. Harold

Well of Souls by Kristina R. Gaddy; Rhiannon Giddens (Foreword by)

Great God a'Mighty! the Dixie Hummingbirds by Jerry Zolten

Decolonizing Contemporary Gospel Music Through Praxis by Robert Beckford

African American music : an introduction by Mellonee V. Burnim (Editor); Portia K. Maultsby (Editor)

Africanness in action : essentialism and musical imaginations of Africa in Brazil by Juan Diego Díaz

Black ephemera : the crisis and challenge of the musical archive by Mark Anthony Neal

Blues on Stage by John L. Clark

Don't Stop the Carnival : black music in Britain by Kevin Le Gendre

Energy never dies : Afro-optimism and creativity in Chicago by Ayana Contreras

Following the drums : African American fife and drum music in Tennessee by John M. Shaw

From Blues to Beyoncé by Alexis McGee

From jubilee to hip hop : readings in African American music by Kip Lornell

Hey America! by Stuart Cosgrove

Instruments of empire : Filipino musicians, Black soldiers, and military band music during US colonization of the Philippines by Mary Talusan

Issues in African American Music : power, gender, race, representation by Mellonee Burnim (Editor); Portia K. Maultsby (Editor)

Jazz À la Creole by Caroline Vézina

Liner notes for the revolution : the intellectual life of black feminist sound by Daphne A. Brooks

Listening for Africa : freedom, modernity, and the logic of Black music's African origins by David F. Garcia

Listening to the Lomax Archive : the sonic rhetorics of African American folksong in the 1930s by Jonathan W. Stone

Lost sounds : Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1890-1919 by Tim Brooks

Music and peacebuilding : African and Latin American experiences by Rafiki Ubaldo (Editor, Contribution by), et al.

Music Studies and Its Moment of Truth by Ed Sarath

The race of sound : listening, timbre, and vocality in African American music by Nina Sun Eidsheim

Songs of Slavery and Emancipation by Mat Callahan; Robin D. G. Kelley (Introduction by); Kali Akuno (Afterword by)

A sound history : Lawrence Gellert, Black musical protest, and white denial by Steven P. Garabedian

Soundscapes of liberation : African American music in postwar France by Celeste Day Moore

Teklife, Ghettoville, Eski : the sonic ecologies of Black music in the early 21st century by Dhanveer Singh Brar

This Is America by Katie Rios

What a Difference a Day Makes by Steve Bergsman

Who hears here? : on Black music, pasts and present by Guthrie P. Ramsey; Tammy L. Kernodle (Foreword by); Shana L. Redmond (Afterword by); Guthrie P. Ramsey

World music and the Black Atlantic : producing and consuming African-Cuban musics on world music stages by Aleysia K. Whitmore

African-American organ music anthology. Volume 10 by Mickey Thomas Terry (Editor)

An anthology of African and African diaspora songs by Louise Toppin (editor), Scott Piper (associate editor)

Anthology of art songs by Black American composers by Willis C. Patterson (Editor) ; preface by George Shirley ; introduction by Wendell P. Whalum

Art songs and spirituals by African-American women composers by Vivian Taylor (editor)

Art Songs for High Voice by Adolphus Hailstork ; Louise Toppin, editor

Black women composers : a century of piano music (1893-1990) by Helen Walker-Hill (Editor)

Blake : grand opera in four acts, 1984 by H. Leslie Adams ; libretto by Daniel Mayers after a story by Martin R. Delany

Blues : an anthology by W.C. Handy (Editor) ; with an introduction by Abbe Niles; illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias

The books of American Negro spirituals : including The book of American Negro spirituals and The second book of Negro spirituals by James Welden Johnson (Editor), J. Rosamond Johnson (Editor)

Concerto for violin and orchestra (1963-1968) by Julia (Amanda) Perry

Five freedom songs : traditional Black spirituals for voice, percussion, and string orchestra by Jessie Montgomery

Four Black American dances : for orchestra by Carlos Simon

Hip-hop studies and etudes. Special excerpts : studies in E minor and F minor by Daniel Bernard Roumain

Negro folk-songs : the Hampton series, books I-IV, complete by Natalie Curtis-Burlin (Editor)

A new anthology of art songs by African American composers by Margaret R. Simmons (Editor), Jeanine Wagner (Editor)

The Oxford book of choral music by Black composers by Marques L.A. Garrett

The Oxford book of spirituals by Moses Hogan (Editor)

Rediscovering Margaret Bonds : art songs, spirituals, musical theater and popular songs by Louise Toppin

Reflections: Scott Joplin Reconsidered by Lara Downes

Seven songs on texts by African American poets : original keys/medium voice by Florence B. Price ; edited by John Michael

Shuffle Along by Noble Sissle (Composed by); Eubie Blake (Composed by); Lyn Schenbeck (Editor); Lawrence Schenbeck (Editor)

Sing for freedom : the story of the Civil Rights Movement through its songs by Guy Carawan (Editor), Candie Carawan (Editor) ; foreword by Julian Bond

Thirty-six South Carolina spirituals : for church, concert and general use by Carl Diton (Editor)