Resources For Teachers - African-American Music

Hitchcock, H. Wiley, and Stanley Sadie, eds. The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. 4 vols. London: Macmillan, 1986.

Jasen, David A. Ragtime: An Encyclopedia, Discography, and Sheetography. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Kernfeld, Barry, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd ed. 3 vols. London: Macmillan, 2002.

Komara, Edward, ed. Encyclopedia of the Blues. 2 vols. New york: Routledge, 2006.

Koskoff, Ellen, ed. The United States and Canada. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, vol. 3. New York: Garland Publishing, 2001.

Larkin, Colin. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. . 4th ed. 10 vols. New York: MUZE, Oxford University Press, 2006.

McNeil, W.K., ed. Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Southern, Eileen, and Josephine Wright. Images: Iconography of Music in African-American Culture (1700s-1920s). New York: Garland Publishing, 2000.

Adamczyk, Alice J. Black Dance: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing, 1989.

de Lerma, Dominique-René. Bibliography of Black Music. New York: Greenwood Press, 1981-84. 4 vols.

Ford, Robert. A Blues Bibliography: The International Literature of an Afro-American Music Genre. Bromley, England: Paul Pelletier, 1999.

Gray, John. Blacks in Classical Music: A Bibliographic Guide to Composers, Performers, and Ensembles. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

Hart, Mary L., Brenda M. Eagles, and Lisa N. Howorth. The Blues: A Bibliographical Guide. New York: Garland Publishing, 1989.
Meadows, Eddie S. Jazz Research and Performance Materials: A Select Annotated Bibliography. 2nd ed. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995.

Skowronski, Jo Ann. Black Music in America: A Bibliography. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981.

Southern, Eileen, and Josephine Wright. African-American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale and Dance, 1600s-1920: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature, Collections and Artworks. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.

Szwed, John F. and Roger D. Abrahams. Afro-American Folk Culture: An Annotated Bibliography of Materials from North, Central and South America and the West Indies. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978.

Feather, Leonard, and Gitler, Ira. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Handy, D. Antoinette. Black Women in American Bands and Orchestras. 2nd ed. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998.

Harris, Sheldon. Blues Who's Who. New York: Da Capo Press, 1979.

Holly, Ellistine Perkins. Biographies of Black Composers and Songwriters: A Supplementary Textbook. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1990.

International Dictionary of Black Composers, edited by Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. 2 vols. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1999.

Stancell, Steven. Rap Whoz Who: The World of Rap Music. New York: Schirmer Books, 1996.

Southern, Eileen. Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.

Brooks, Tilford. America's Black Musical Heritage. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1984. (Out of print.)

Burnim, Mellonee V. and Portia L. Maultsby, eds. African American Music: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2006.

Caldwell, Hansonia L. African-American Music: A Chronology, 1619-1995. Los Angeles: Ikoro Communications, 1996.

Floyd, Samuel A., Jr. The Power of Black Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Haskins, James. Black Music in America: A History Through Its People. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1987. (High school level. Out of print?)

Roach, Hildred. Black American Music: Past and Present. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger Publishing Co., 1992.

Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans. 3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.

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

Stewart, Earl L. African American Music: An Introduction. New York: Schirmer Books, 1998.