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 37,727 essays and images from 146 sources, over 43,127 pages. You can also access African American Music Reference through the Music Online interface. More »

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What's the Use of Walking if There's a Freight Train Going Your Way?: Black Hoboes and Their Songs by Garon, Paul & Tomko, Gene

The Velvet Lounge: On Late Chicago Jazz by Majer, Gerald

Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties by Saul, Scott

His Eye Is On the Sparrow: An Autobiography by Waters, Ethel & Samuels, Charles