Periodicals like newspapers and magazines are likely to include interviews and first-hand accounts of events. To do a deep dive into a specific publication's articles, use the Journal/Magazine search on the homepage.
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.
