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African-American Band Music and Recordings, 1883-1923   -- web presentation.

Stock band arrangements and historic recordings of popular music by African-American composers.

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African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University   -- web presentation.

Music reflecting African-American culture and key social issues.

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Katherine Dunham Collection   -- collection.

Audio-visual archive of Miss Dunham's fieldwork, choreography, and performance.

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Valburn/Ellington Collection   -- collection.

Printed music, clippings and publicity photographs related to one of America’s outstanding jazz composers and ...

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Tad Hershorn Collection of Jazz Research Materials   -- collection.

Research materials documenting the career of jazz impresario Norman Granz.

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Home Sweet Home: Life in Nineteenth-century Ohio   -- web presentation.

Music reflecting 19th-century middle American

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The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress   -- web presentation.

Rediscovered plays by the noted African American author and scholar.

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The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip   -- web presentation.

An ethnographic field collection which includes nearly 700 sound recordings documenting a three-month trip through the southern United States by John Avery Lomax and his wife ...

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Charles Mingus Collection, 1939-1979   -- collection.

The papers of an important American jazz bassist and composer.

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Jelly Roll Morton Collection, 1905-1941   -- collection.

Manuscript and published copyright deposits including transcriptions of recorded versions of the composer’s ...

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National Negro Opera Company Collection, 1931-1989   -- collection.

Correspondence and business papers of an American opera company.

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"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943   -- web presentation.

Sound recordings of blues and gospel songs with related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, ...

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