Welcome to African American Music Reference

African American Music Reference will contain 50,000 pages of text and 15,000 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 38,792 essays and images from 150 sources, over 63,241 pages and liner notes. You can also access African American Music Reference through the Music Online interface. More »

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Glorious Days and Nights: A Jazz Memoir by Snitzer, Herb

The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success and Betrayal by Ribowsky, Mark

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

Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday by Clarke, Donald