Black Music Month celebrates the history and contributions of music created by African-Americans throughout our country's history. Every genre of American music (and music world-wide) is continually influenced by African-Americans. Please enjoy the books and music available at the Alexandria Campus.

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Aida's Brothers & Sisters : Black Voices In Opera [Videorecording] ML400 .A322x 2000

Black, Kerrigan. Tryin' To Get Home: A History Of African American Song [Videorecording] ML3479.B52 X1993

Blackburn, Julia. With Billie. ML420.H58 B53 2005

Brown, James. Star Time [sound recording] M1630.18.B77 S72x 1991

Commissioned (Musical group). The Commissioned Reunion "Live" [sound recording] M2198.C65 C66x 2002

Cooper, Martha. Hip Hop Files : Photographs, 1979-1984. ML3531 .C667x 2004

Cross, Charles R. Room Full of Mirrors : A Biography of Jimi Hendrix. ML410.H476 C76 2005

Davis, Francis. The History of the Blues. ML3521 .D36 2003

Dells (Musical group). On Their Corner: The Best of the Dells [Sound Recording] M1630.18.D44 O52x 1992

Dyson, Michael Eric. Material Witness: Race, Identity and the Politics of Gangsta Rap. [Videorecording] E185.625 .M38x 1995

Ellison, Ralph. Living With Music : Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings. ML3507 .E45 2001

Evans, David. The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Blues ML3521 .E92 2005

Forman, Murray and Mark Anthony Neal (editors). That's the Joint! : The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. ML3531 .T43 2004

Fox, Ted. Showtime at the Apollo. PN2277.N52 A684 1993

Harris, Michael W. The Rise Of Gospel Blues : The Music Of Thomas Andrew Dorsey In The Urban Church. ML3187 .H37 1992

Harrison, Daphne Duval. Black Pearls : Blues Queens Of The 1920s. ML3521 .H38 1988

Harrison, Paul Carter, Victor Leo Walker II, Gus Edwards (editors). Black Theatre : Ritual Performance In The African Diaspora. PN1590.B53 B59 2002

Jackson, Jerma A. Singing in My Soul : Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age. ML3187 .J23 2004

James, Boney. Backbone. [sound recording] M1366.J35 B32x 1994

Jefferson, Margo. On Michael Jackson. ML420.J175 J44 2006

Jess, Tyehimba. Leadbelly. PS3610.E874 L43 2005

Johnson, James Weldon. Lift Every Voice and Sing : A Pictorial Tribute to the Negro National Anthem.  ML3561.L54 J64x 2000

Jones, Arthur (Arthur C.). Wade in the Water : The Wisdom of the Spirituals. ML3556 .J72 1993

Kitwana, Bakari. The Hip Hop Generation : Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture.  E185.86 .K58 2002 

Miyakawa, Felicia M. Five Percenter Rap : God Hop's Music, Message, and Black Muslim Mission. ML3531 .M49 2005

Nathan, David. The Soulful Divas : Personal Portraits of Over a Dozen Divine Divas, from Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin & Diana Ross to Patti Labelle, Whitney Houston & Janet Jackson.  ML400 .N28 1999

Oliver, Richard W. Hip-Hop, Inc. : Success Strategies of the Rap Moguls. ML3790 .O48 2006

Perkins, William Eric (editor) Droppin' Science : Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture. ML3531 .D77 1996

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand. [videorecording]  E185.97.R63 P374x 1999

Perkins, William Eric (editor). Droppin' Science : Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture. ML3531 .D77 1996

Perone, James E. The Sound of Stevie Wonder : His Words and Music. ML410.W836 P47 2006

Porter, Cole. Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook. [sound recording] M1507.P86 E44 X1984

Quinn, Eithne. Nuthin' But A "G" Thang : The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap. ML3531 .Q56 2005

Reagon, Bernice Johnson (editor). We'll Understand It Better By and By : Pioneering African American Gospel Composers. ML390 .W274 1992

Redding, Otis. Otis!:The Definitive Otis Redding. [sound recording]  M1630.18.R42 O84X 1993

Schoenberg, Loren. The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz. ML3506 .S34 2002

Simmons, Russell. Life and Def : Sex, Drugs, Money, and God. ML429.S56 A3 2001b

Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: A History. ML3556 .S74

Spencer, Jon Michael. The New Negroes and Their Music : The Success of the Harlem Renaissance. ML3556 .S77 1997

Strausbaugh, John. Black Like You : Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture. E185.625 .S77 2006

That's Black Entertainment. [videorecording] PN1995.9.N4 T43x 1997 v.1-2

Toll, Robert C. Blacking Up : The Minstrel Show in Nineteenth Century America. ML1711 .T64

Waller, Fats. Satch Plays Fats: Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars. [sound recording] M1366.W36 S37 X1986

Watkins, S. Craig (Samuel Craig) Hip Hop Matters : Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle For the Soul of a Movement. ML3531 .W38 2005

Williams, Martin T. Jazz in its Time. ML3507 .W535 1989

Woll, Allen L. Black Musical Theatre : From Coontown to Dreamgirls. ML1711 .W64 1989