African American Music Reference brings together 50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
Encyclopedias, textbooks, and reference databases summarize background information on historical events and established facts about controversial issues.
Research-based articles written by academics and reviewed by fellow scholars provide credible analysis behind different viewpoints on a deeper level.
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