African-American Music

Archives & Libraries

• Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAMC) at Indiana University
• The Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College, Chicago
• The Blues Archive at The University of Missisippi Libraries
• Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University
• Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University (New Orleans style jazz and other genres)
• Felix E. Grant Jazz Archives at the University of the District of Columbia
• Chicago Jazz Archive at the University of Chicago (Focus on jazz in Chicago)
• Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College (Clinton, NY)
• Jazz Archive at Duke University
• Jazz at the National Archives
• Sonny Rollins International Jazz Archives at the University of Pittsburgh
• Montreux Jazz Digital Project (Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Spirituals at the Library of Congress American Folklife Center
• African-American Band Music & Recordings, 1883 to 1923 at the Library of Congress (recordings and sheet music, mainly popular song)

Blogs

• AfriClassical blog:  news about classical performers & composers of African heritage
• Center for Black Music Research blog
• Black Grooves, a review site for music & books about music

Websites

• Mississippi Blues Trail, an organization that has placed markers at locations of significance in Mississippi
• National Museum of African American Music 

Black History Resources

• National Archives Library Information Center (ALIC) Black History resources
• Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)
• Stone Center Library for Black Culture & History at the University of North Carolina
• Black Archives of Mid-America (Kansas City)

Film and Video Resources

• Folkstreams video archives
• Kanopy educational videos (Log in required from off campus)