Welcome to African American Music Reference

African American Music Reference will contain 50,000 pages that offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. This release includes 4,229 essays and images from 108 sources, over 31,157 pages. You can also access African American Music Reference through the Music Online interface. More »

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