• Videos - Click for videos and audio files of African American musical performances

Music for Worship and Work

These sites include music audio clips, lyrics, sheet music, photos, etc.

• Now What a Time: Blues and Gospel - Library of Congress - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftvhtml/ftvhome.html

• Negro Spirituals- http://www.negrospirituals.com/

• Lamont University Spirituals Project - https://liberalarts.du.edu/lamont/spirituals-project

  • Archived Sweet Chariot Project - https://wayback.archive-it.org/7728/20160809204801/http://www.spiritualsproject.org/sweetchariot/

• Fisk Jubilee Singers - http://fiskjubileesingers.org/

• Fisk Jubilee Singers: The American Experience - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/singers/

The Fisk Jubilee Singers

African American Sheet Music

Library of Congress - http://memory.loc.gov:8081/ammem/collections/sheetmusic/brown/

The Blues - PBS Classroom - http://www.pbs.org/theblues/classroom.html

• Take the Blues Roadtrip - http://www.pbs.org/theblues/roadtrip.html

• Music Clips for Listening - http://www.pbs.org/theblues/classroom/cd.html

• What is the Blues? - http://www.pbs.org/theblues/classroom/essaysblues.html

• Understanding the 12-Bar Blues - http://www.pbs.org/theblues/classroom/essays12bar.html

• Blues Radio - Audio Cuts - http://www.yearoftheblues.org/radio/index.asp

• The Blues Foundation - http://www.blues.org/index.php4

• The Blue Highway - http://www.thebluehighway.com/

• Blues History - http://www.blues101.org/historystyles.htm

• Archibald Motley - Harlem Renaissance - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/arts/motley.html

• African American World Arts and Culture - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/arts/index.html

• Blues Roots - http://northbysouth.kenyon.edu/1999/blues/blues2.htm

JAZZ

• Red Hot Jazz Archive - http://www.redhotjazz.com/index.htm

• Jazz Roots - http://www.jass.com/

• All About Jazz - http://www.allaboutjazz.com/

• History of Jazz Timeline - http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/timeline.php

• A Passion for Jazz - http://www.apassion4jazz.net/

• Jazz at Lincoln Center - http://www.jazzatlincolncenter.org/

• Jazz Improvisation - http://hum.lss.wisc.edu/jazz/

• PBS Jazz for Kids - http://pbskids.org/jazz/

• Smithsonian Jazz - http://www.smithsonianjazz.org/

• HyperMusic History of Jazz - http://www.hypermusic.ca/jazz/mainmenu.html

Jazz by Ken Burns (PBS) - http://www.pbs.org/jazz/

This PBS site is a great resource on the history of jazz. Ken Burns is a documentary filmmaker. Read behind the scenes about more on how this film was created. This fantastic website includes an interactive map, a timeline of events in the history of jazz, videos, audio clips, biographies of jazz artists, etc. Click on the side menu for:

• Places, Spaces & Changing Faces - Interactive map describing jazz centers in the U.S. - http://www.pbs.org/jazz/places/

• The Jazz Lounge - Hear the different musical jazz styles! - http://www.pbs.org/jazz/lounge/

• The Jazz Timeline - http://www.pbs.org/jazz/time/

• Musical Notes - Audio Music Clips - http://www.pbs.org/jazz/beat/

• Jazz Biographies - http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/

African American Music Resources

Archives of African American Culture (AAAMC) - http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/

• Special Collections - http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/special.html

International Association of African American Music - http://www.iaaam.com/

• Broadway - Post World War II African American Musicals - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/hello/war.html

• Black History and Classical Music - http://chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com/History.html

• Gospel Music Workshop of America - http://gmwa.org/

• Africans in America - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/ - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html

• Afrocentric Voices in Classical Music - http://www.afrovoices.com/

• Gospel Music Workshop of America - http://www.gmwa.org/

• African American Sheet Music - Library of Congress - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/aasmhome.html

• Center of Southern African American Music - http://www.sc.edu/csam/archive_print.html

• African American World - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/history/index.html

• Smithsonian Folkways - http://www.folkways.si.edu/index.html

• Satchmo Website - http://www.satchmo.net/

• Jazz Links - http://www.42explore.com/jazz.htm

• Duke Ellington - http://www.dukeellington.com/

• Billy Holliday - http://www.cmgww.com/music/holiday/

• PBS Biographies - http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/

• Red Hot Jazz Biographies - http://www.redhotjazz.com/musicians.html