AFAM/MUSIC 207N: Jazz and the African American Experience
This guide is for students in Penn State Harrisburg's AFAM/MUSIC 207N taught by Professor Bryan Grove. It includes numerous research sources about the evolution of Jazz and its influences on American culture.
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Established in 1991 at Indiana University (Bloomington), the Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) is a repository of materials covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era.
Curated by Jenzia Burgos, a Puerto Rican-Dominican writer and music journalist from the South Bronx, New York, it is a living collection of books, articles, documentaries, series, podcasts and more about the Black origins of traditional and popular music dating from the 18th century to present day. Resources are organized chronologically and by genre for ease of browsing.
The Center for Black Music Research (CBMR) highlights the role of black music in world culture with materials originating or representing black music from the United States, the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and Latin America, in a variety of formats: personal papers, scores, sheet music, audio-visual materials, photographs, oral histories, books, periodicals, and commercial recordings.
Providing streamed audio files from 26 independent record labels, DRAM is a not-for-profit, online music database dedicated to preserving and disseminating important musical recordings that may be difficult or impossible to obtain by other means.
Providing streamed audio files from 26 independent record labels, DRAM is a not-for-profit, online music database dedicated to preserving and disseminating important musical recordings that may be difficult or impossible to obtain by other means. The collection includes all recordings from the labels New World Records and Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI), and reflects the diversity of American music as well as other recordings of aesthetic and historical value largely ignored by the commercial marketplace. Liner notes and cover art are included.
Originally founded in 1958 as the "Archive of New Orleans Jazz," and recently renamed in 2020 as "The Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz," the collection is part of Tulane University's Special Collections. It supports the research and study of New Orleans music and culture of the late 19th and 20th centuries forward.
A free, searachable database of filmography that documents the work of some 1,000 major jazz and blues figures in over 20,000 cinema, television, and video productions.
The mission of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH) is to preserve, promote and present jazz by inspiring knowledge, appreciation and the celebration of jazz locally, nationally and internationally.
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and other contributing libraries and archives. This sub-collection contains jazz and musical forms that are considered to be among the roots of jazz, including ragtime. NOTE: See also the "Citizen DJ" version of this resource at https://citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov/loc-jukebox-jazz/use/. Under the Music Modernization Act, items in this collection that were published prior to 1923 entered public domain on January 1, 2022, and became free to use and reuse.