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 | After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama ISBN: 9780813943022 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Virginia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Wilson August -- Criticism and interpretation; Historical drama American -- History and criticism; African Americans in literature; Blues (Music) in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; American drama -- 20th century -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Banjo Roots and Branches ISBN: 9780252050640 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Banjo -- History; Lute -- Africa -- History; African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection ISBN: 9780253038432 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Indiana University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; Black lives matter movement; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South ISBN: 9780252092374 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Smith Bessie 1894–1937; Singers -- United States -- Biography; Blues (Music) -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga -- History; Chattanooga (Tenn.) -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's “Gospel Army" ISBN: 9780814274811 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Ohio State University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; Spirituals (Songs) -- History and criticism; Ring shout (Dance); Masculinity; United States. Army. South Carolina Volunteers 1st (1862–1864); United States -- History -- Civil War 1861–1865 -- African; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe ISBN: 9781604735475 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Europe -- Music -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Music -- Influence; Popular music -- Europe -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation ISBN: 9780520937871 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans on television; African Americans -- Songs and music -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Destructive Desires: Rhythm and Blues Culture and the Politics of Racial Equality ISBN: 9781978803619 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Rhythm and blues music -- Social aspects -- United States -- History; Rhythm and blues music -- Political aspects -- United States -- History; Rhythm and blues music -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Attitudes; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas ISBN: 9780520947405 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Blacks -- Caribbean Area -- Music -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; Brown James 1933–2006 -- Criticism and interpretation; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music ISBN: 9780520943094 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; Music -- History and criticism; African American musicians; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery ISBN: 9780674054769 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Social life and customs; African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; Legends -- History and criticism; Ballads -- History and criticism; Police power -- Southern States -- History; Police-community relations -- Southern State; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues ISBN: 9780812202045 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Rhythm and blues music -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History and criticism; Rhythm and blues music -- Washington (D.C.) -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Social conditions -- 20th century; African Americans -- Washingto; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music ISBN: 9780252099939 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; Jazz in literature; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; Black nationalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Afri; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans, New Edition: After Hurricane Katrina ISBN: 9780253025128 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Indiana University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Jazz -- Religious aspects -- Louisiana -- New Orleans; Jazz -- Religious aspects -- Voodooism; African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Music -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Kennedy's Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs on JFK ISBN: 9781604731590 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Blues (Music) -- History and criticism; Gospel music -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Music -- Political aspects; Kennedy John F. (John Fitzgerald) 1917–1963 -- Songs and music -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919 ISBN: 9780252090639 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; Sound recording industry -- History; Music -- United States -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem ISBN: 9781469638621 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Johnson J. Rosamond (John Rosamond) 1873–1954. Lift every voice and sing; African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; Anthems -- United States -- History and criticism; African Americans -- United States -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Natalie Curtis Burlin: A Life in Native and African American Music ISBN: 9780803230231 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Burlin Natalie Curtis 1875–1921; Ethnomusicologists -- United States -- Biography; African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; Indians of North America -- Music -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Nothing but Love in God's Water: Volume 1: Black Sacred Music from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement ISBN: 9780271065731 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Penn State University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; Spirituals (Songs) -- History and criticism; Gospel music -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889-1895 ISBN: 9781604730395 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Music -- Hisory and criticism; Popular music -- United States -- To 1901 -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman: Black History and Poetics in Performance ISBN: 9781496220929 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African American women -- Music -- History and criticism; Slaves -- Southern States -- Music -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; African American dance -- History; African American women dancers; African American; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop ISBN: 9780520938434 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; Popular music -- Social aspects -- United States; African Americans in popular culture; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Ragged but Right: Black Traveling Shows, "Coon Songs," and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz ISBN: 9781621036531 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; Minstrel shows -- United States -- History; Tent shows -- United States -- History; Sideshows -- United States -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Singing in the Spirit: African-American Sacred Quartets in New York City ISBN: 9781512800043 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Gospel music -- New York (N.Y.) -- History and criticism; Afro-Americans -- New York (N.Y.) -- Music -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Soul Music: Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown ISBN: 9780472022793 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Michigan Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; Soul music -- History and criticism; Blues (Music) -- History and criticism; Music -- Religious aspects; Music and philosophy; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry ISBN: 9780252050305 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Illinois Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism; Jubilee Singers; Spirituals (Songs) -- United States -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Minstrel shows -- United States -- History -- 19th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Beat: Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C. ISBN: 9781604733433 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Go-go (Music) -- Washington (D.C.) -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Invention and Reinvention of Big Bill Broonzy ISBN: 9781469646510 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Broonzy Big Bill 1893–1958; African American musicians -- Biography; Blues musicians -- United States -- Biography; African Americans -- Race identity; Blues (Music) -- History and criticism; Celebrities in popular culture; Harlem Renaissance; ■ Detailed Information | |
 | The Product of Our Souls: Ragtime, Race, and the Birth of the Manhattan Musical Marketplace ISBN: 9781469622712 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Music -- History and criticism; Ragtime music -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism; Ragtime music -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Music; ■ Detailed Information | |
| Tracking Pop : Soul Music : Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown ISBN: 9780472022793 Platform/Publisher: PQ ebrary / University of Chicago Press Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a time Subjects: African Americans : Music : History and criticism.; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) |