Books
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My Bondage and My Freedom
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Doo-Dah! : Stephen Foster and the rise of American popular culture
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Forty Years of American Life
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Publication Date: 1968
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Blacks in Blackface : a sourcebook on early black musical shows
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Links
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Berry GordyFrom Motown Museum
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It's Getting 'Hot' in HereFrom the National Museum of American History
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Ella Fitzgerald's Early Years Collected in a Chick Webb Box SetFrom NPR Fresh Air
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Duke Ellington DiscographyFrom Naxos
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Rhapsody in BlueFrom Gershwin.com
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Heavily Abridged ‘Slave Bible’ Removed Passages That Might Encourage UprisingsFrom the Smithsonian
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Ella Sheppard, SopranoFrom the American Experience, PBS
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The celebrated negro melodies as sung by the Virginia Minstrels, adapted for the piano forte by Thos. ComerThe New York Public Library Digital Collections
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Blackface MinstrelsyFrom American Experience, PBS
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A Moral Battle Cry for FreedomFrom the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
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Uncle Tom's Cabin & American CultureFrom the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
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Francis (Frank) Johnson, Musician, and Teacher bornFrom the African American Registry
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BeyoncéFrom grammy.com
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The Square Dancing MasterFrom American Heritage Magazine
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Bobby Womack (1944-2014)From Rolling Stone
Newspaper and Journal Articles
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The Birmingham BombingBy Howell Raines. “The Birmingham Bombing: BIRMINGHAM.” The New York Times, 1983, p. SM12.
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Taxi Dancers to Gaga: Roseland's Life and DeathFrom the New York Times
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Paul Whiteman, 'the Jazz King' Of the Jazz Age, Is Dead at 77; Made Jazz RespectableFrom The New York Times Timesmachine
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Berry Gordy: The man behind Motown“Berry Gordy: The Man behind Motown.” Telegraph.Co.Uk, 2016.
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Authenticity, Mimicry, and Early African American EntertainmentLee, Josephine. “Authenticity, Mimicry, and Early African American Entertainment.” American Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 1, 2021, pp. 151–56, https://doi.org/10.1353/aq.2021.0010.
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P.T. Barnum, the showman and grifter who held up a funhouse mirror to AmericaFrom the Washington Post
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The little woman behind a very big warFrom The Christian Science Monitor
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Old Corn Meal: A Forgotten Urban Negro FolksingerKmen, Henry A. “Old Corn Meal: A Forgotten Urban Negro Folksinger.” The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 75, no. 295, 1962, pp. 29–34, https://doi.org/10.2307/537839.
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'Shuffle Along' and the Lost History of Black Performance in AmericaSullivan, John Jeremiah. “‘Shuffle Along’ and the Lost History of Black Performance in America.” New York Times (Online), 2016.
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The man who used jazz for justiceFrom The Washington Post, 1994