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 3,889 essays and images from 100 sources, over 28,608 pages. You can also access African American Music Reference through the Music Online interface. More »

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Bird Lives!: The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie (Yardbird) Parker by Ross Russell

In Search of the Blues by Marybeth Hamilton

Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip-Hop by Michael Eric Dyson

Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War by Penny M. von Eschen