Go to Section or Dept. Name home

African American History Month Music

Search VIRGO, the University of Virginia Library Catalog, to see whether a title has been checked out.

(CD=compact disc)

Recordings

  • Africa en America : mâusica de 19 paâises = Africa in America : music from 19 countries. Condesa, Mexico : Corason ; Distribution USA: Cambridge, Ma. : Rounder Records, p1992. CD 04450
  • African American community gospel. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian/Folkways, p1994. CD 0459
  • African American congregational singing [sound recording] : nineteenth-century roots. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian/Folkways, p1994. CD 04598 
  • African American gospel : the pioneering composers. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian/Folkways, p1994. CD 04597
  • African American spirituals : the concert tradition. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian/Folkways, p1994. CD 04599
  • Africans in America. Salem, MA : Rykodisc, p1998. CD 07072 (3 discs)
  • Anthology of art songs by Black American composers / compiled by Willis C. Patterson. New York : E. B. Marks Music Corp., c1977. M1619.A66 P3
  • Black Appalachia : string bands, songsters and hoedowns. Cambridge, MA : Rounder Records, p1999. CD 07660
  • The colored sacred harp / Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers. New York : New World Records, p1993. CD 04281
  • In this land / Sweet Honey in the Rock. Redway, Calif. : EarthBeat! Records : Distributed by Warner Bros. Records, p1992. CD 05732
  • My Eyes Have Seen / Odetta. New York : Vanguard, 1959. LP 8567
  • Negro folk singing games and folk games of the Habitants / Grace Cleveland Porter. Norwood, Pa. : Norwood Editions, 1974. M1985 .N4 1974
  • Songs of free men / Robeson, Paul.  New York : Sony Classical, p1997.  CD 07568
  • Songs of peace, freedom, and protest / Tom Glazer. New York, D. McKay Co. 1970. M1629 .G556 S6
  • The roots of rap : classic recordings from the 1920's and 30's. Yazoo, p1996. CD 06389
  • Street Sounds / Street Sounds. Oakland, CA : Redwood Records, p1994. CD 06556
  • Voices of the civil rights movement : Black American freedom songs, 1960-1966. LP 14895

Printed Music

  • 35 song hits by great Black songwriters. Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 1998. M1630.18 .T525 1998
  • Echoes of Africa in folk songs of the Americas / Beatrice Landeck. New York : D. McKay Co., c1969. M1680 .L15 E3 1969
  • Ev'ry time I feel the spirit : 101 best-loved psalms, gospel hymns, and spiritual songs of the African-American church / Gwendolin Sims Warren. New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1997. M1670 .W37 1997
  • Sing for freedom : the story of the Civil Rights Movement through its songs / compiled and edited by Guy and Candie Carawan. Bethlehem, Pa. : Sing Out Corp., c1990. M1977.C47 S56 1990
  • Slave songs of the United States. New York : Dover, 1995. M1670 .A42 1995
  • Songs for today : eine Sammlung amerikanischer Negro-Spirituals. Muenchen : Strube, c1997. M1670 .S65 1997
  • The story of the Jubilee Singers : with their songs / by J. B. T. Marsh. Boston : Houghton, Osgood, 1880. M1670 .F4 M3 1880

Videorecordings

  • Reagon, Bernice. The Songs are free. New York : Mystic Fire Video, c1991. Clemons VIDEO .VHS6131

Websites

University of Virginia Library
PO Box 400113, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4113
ph: (434) 924-3021, fax: (434) 924-1431, library@virginia.edu

Text Version    |   Libraries   |   Depts./Contacts   |  U.Va. Home   |   ITC

Website Feedback   |   Search   |   Questions? Ask a Librarian   |   Hours   |   Map   |   Policies   |   Jobs

Tracking Opt-out    |   © by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia

Federal Library Depository logo  This library is a Congressionally designated depository for U.S. Government documents. Public access to the Government documents is guaranteed by public law.