Black music - books


Abrahms, Roger D. Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American
Culture in the Plantation South. New York: Penguin Books, 1993.

AIRSHAFTS, LOUDSPEAKERS AND THE HIP-HOP SAMPLE - CONTEXT AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSICAL AESTHETICS

Baraka, Imamu Amiri (Le Roi Jones). Blues People: Negro Music in White
America. orig. 1963;  Westport Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.

Bogle, Donald. Brown Sugar - Eighty Years of America's Black Female
Superstars. New York: Da Capo Press.

Brooks, Tilford. America's Black Musical Heritage. Eng Cliffs NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1984.

Collins, John. West African Pop Roots. Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 1992.

Davis, Stephen. Reggae Bloodlines - In Search of the Music and Culture of
Jamaica. New York: Da Capo Press.

Dennison, Sam. Scandalize my name - Black imagery in American popular
music. Garland Publishing, 1982.

Ewens, Graeme. Africa O-YE! - A Celebration of African Music. New York: Da
Capo Press.

Fernett, Gene. Swing Out - Great Negro Dance Bands. New York: Da Capo
Press.

Floyd, Samuel A., Jr. The Power of Black Music: Interpreting Its History 
from Africa to the United States. Oxford University Press, 1995.

Fox, Ted. Showtime at the Apollo. New York: Da Capo Press, 1983.

Hasse, John Edward, ed. Ragtime: It's History, Composers and Music. NY: 1985.

Hennessey, Thomas J., 1945-. From jazz to swing : African-American jazz 
musicians and their music,1890-1935. 1994.

Jackson, Irene V., ed. More Than Dancing: Essays on Afro-American Music and
Musicians. Westport Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985.

Lott, Eric. Love & Theft - Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working
Class. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Maultsby, Poetia K. Afro-American Religious Music: A Study in Musical
Diversity. (Papers of the Hymn Society of America, 35.) Springfield, OH:
The Hymn Society of America, 1981.

McKee, Margaret and Fred Chisenhall. Beale Black & Blue: Life and Music on
Black America's Main Street. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1981.

Naipaul, V. S. A Turn in the South. NY: 1989.

Nathan, Hans. Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy. Norman, 
OK: 1977. (1st ed., 1962).

Oliver, Paul. Songsters & Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Patterson, Daniel W., ed. Sounds of the South. Durham NC: Duke University
Press, 1992.

Peters, Erskine, ed. Lyrics of the Afro-American Spiritual - A Documentary
Collection. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.

Riis, Thomas Laurence. Just Before Jazz: Black Musical Theater in New York,
1890 to 1915. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1989.

Roach, Hildred. Black American Music: Past and Present. Melbourne, FL: 
Krieger Publ. Co., 1994.
a textbook

Sampson, Henry T. Blacks in Blackface: A Source Book on Early Black Musical
Shows. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1980.

Shaw, Arnold. Black Popular Music in America. New York: Schirmer Books,
1986.

Sidran, Ben. Black Talk. orig, 1971, New York: Da Capo Press, 1981.

Southern, Eileen, ed. Readings in Black American Music. New York: W.W.
Norton, 1971; 2nd ed., 1983.

Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans. New York: W.W. Norton,
1971; 2nd ed., 1983.

Stewart, Gary. Breakout: profiles in African Rhythm. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1992.

Sutton, Joel Brett. The Gospel Hymn, Shaped Notes, and the Black Tradition. 
Continuity and Change in American Traditional Music. Chapel Hill, NC: MA 
Thesis in Folklore, 1976.

Toll, Robert C. Blacking Up: the minstrel show in nineteenth century
America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Van Der Merwe, Peter. Origins of the Popular Style: The Antecedents of
Twentieth-Century Popular Music. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1989.

Wake Up Dead Man: Afro-American Worksong from Texas Prisons. Coll. 
and Edited by Bruce Jackson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 
1972.

Williams, Ora. American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences. 
Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994.

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