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African American Sheet Music, 1820-1920
URL: http://dl.lib.brown.edu/sheetmusic/afam/

Description:
Images of hundreds of pieces of sheet music, including "songs from the heyday of antebellum blackface minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period." Indexed by title, subject, or creator. Also includes links to essays that provide history and context. From the John Hay Library at Brown University.

Publisher:
Brown University Library

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
African Americans -- Music
Popular music -- United States
Sheet music

LII Database Information:
Record 20730 created by Dennis Maness on 02/22/2006
Last modification on 03/07/2006
Published: 03/09/2006  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20730