Welcome to African American Music Reference

African American Music Reference will contain 50,000 pages of text and 17,000 pages of liner notes 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 42,612 essays and images from 162 sources, over 67,184 pages and liner notes. You can also access African American Music Reference through the Music Online interface. More »

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Showman: The Life and Music and Perry George Lowery by Watkins, Clifford Edward

Blues Who's Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers by Harris, Sheldon

78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South by Minton, John

Music of the Common Tongue: Survival and Celebration in African American Music by Small, Christopher