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 2,124 essays and images from 49 sources, over 17,222 pages. More »

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Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues by Shane K. Bernard The Great Jazz Pianists: Speaking of Their Lives and Music by Len Lyons John Coltrane by Bill Cole Mingus: A Critical Biography by Brian Priestley