African American Song
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University of Pittsburgh faculty, students, and staff, and may be used
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Description:
African American Song is designed to document the history of African American music by providing full length, streaming music files.
This release holds some 16,000 tracks of historical recordings from Document Records featuring music from the first half of the 20th century. It is searchable by several means including, by artist instrument or album.
While the collection covers a range of genres, it features a proportionally large amount of blues recordings as well as approximately 3,500 songs under the classification "sacred" music.
Users can create playlists and link to an online store of the materials. Educators have options to create tests and further organize material for use in coursework.
Coverage: Early 20th Century African American Music in the following catagories:
- American Folk
- Blues
- Jazz
- Ragtime
- Sacred
- Spoken Word & Sounds
- Stage & Screen
Information Type: full-length streaming music
Help & More Information:
- About African American Song - about the current and future releases of this database
- African American Song, Help- the database's Help menu
Related Databases:
- See Databases by Subject: Africana Studies, Music