Full DescriptionAfrican-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: From the Collections of Brown University |
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| Title: | African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: From the Collections of Brown University |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/sheetmusic/brown/ 
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This collection consists of 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. It includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period. Numerous titles are associated with the novel and the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Civil War period music includes songs about African-American soldiers and the plight of the newly emancipated slave. Post-Civil War music reflects the problems of Reconstruction and the beginnings of urbanization and the northern migration of African Americans. African-American popular composers include James Bland, Ernest Hogan, Bob Cole, James Reese Europe, and Will Marion Cook. Twentieth century titles feature many photographs of African-American musical performers, often in costume. Unlike many other sorts of published works, sheet music can be produced rapidly in response to an event or public interest, and thus is a source of relatively unmediated and unrevised perspectives on quickly changing events and public attitudes. Particularly significant in this collection are the visual depictions of African Americans which provide much information about racial attitudes over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Selected from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library at Brown University. Consists of 1,305 pieces of American-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. Includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period. Numerous titles are associated with the novel and the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Civil War period music includes songs about African-American soldiers and the plight of the newly emancipated slave. Post-Civil War music reflects the problems of Reconstruction and the beginnings of urbanization and the northern migration of African Americans. African-American popular composers include James Bland, Ernest Hogan, Bob Cole, James Reese Europe, and Will Marion Cook. |
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| Subjects: |
Brown University--Library. African Americans--Music. African Americans--Songs and music. Folk music--United States. Popular music--United States. Music--United States--19th century. Music--United States--20th century. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Songs and music. |
| DLF-specific Subjects: | American Culture |
| Geographic Coverage: | North America (continent) |
| Time Period: |
Early 20th Century (1901-1933) Late 19th Century (1868-1900) Middle 19th Century (1834-1867) Modern (1701-present) |
| Objects Represented: | Sheet music and scores |
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| Frequency of additions: | Irregularly |
| Notes: |
[Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress, American Memory, 1999- Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress. Copyright and other restrictions: Permission to copy in any form or to publish material from the Collection must be obtained from Brown University Library. |
| This Record Last Updated By: | khage@umich.edu |
| This Record Last Updated On: | 10/15/2007 12:41:07 PM |
| Hosting Institution: | Library of Congress |
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| Notes: | Sheet Music Collection of Brown University Library |
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