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As the Black School Sings Black Music Collections at Black Universities and Colleges with a Union List of Book Holdings

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Jon Michael Spencer

Book Code: SBG/

ISBN: 0-313-25859-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-25859-6

DOI:

201 pages, bibliog.

Greenwood Press

Publication: 6/16/1987

List Price: $79.95 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)

Availability: Out of stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Series Title: Music Reference Collection

Series Number: 13

Reviews:

Most scholars and researchers in black music know the special collections at Howard, Fisk, and Atlanta universities; but they are largely unaware of the reservoir musical resources at other black colleges and universities. This unique bibliography is a detailed inventory of published and unpublished compositions, hymnals and songbooks, phonograph and tape recordings, correspondence, photographs, programs, broadsides, and newspaper, magazine and journal clippings located in the special collections at 17 black colleges and universities in the US. A chapter on each of the ten institutions that own music manuscript collections appears in Part 1. Smaller collections are minutely described; extensive collections are treated more closely here than in any other available source. Those institutions without music manuscripts are represented, along with the others, in the bibliography and union list in Part 2. The biographical data on persons mentioned in the inventories and the author's carefully crafted introduction give this catalog the scholarly and literary ingredients of an encyclopedic history. Part 2 is a union list of 1,135 books on black and African music and musicians in the special collections at the 17 institutions listed in Part 1. Both parts are indexed in the general index. Essential for libraries supporting African-American music and musicians.
—Choice
Here's another informative book from Greenwood Press. The author has catalogued archival collections at the universities of Atlanta, Fisk, Hampton, Howard, Jackson State, Lincoln, North Carolina Central, Southern and Virginia State, and at Tuskegee Institute. From a jazz viewpoint, these collections range from the meagre to the pathetic. This suggests a way in which wealthy record collectors and such might consider for expressing their love of the music's makers--by willing their collections to universities like these.
—Jazztimes

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction
Part I: Archival Collections
Atlanta University
Fisk Unviersity
Hampton University
Howard University
Jackson State University
Lincoln Unversity
North Carolina Central University
Southern University
Tuskegee Institute
Virginia State University
Part II: Bibliography and Union List
Index

LC Card Number: 87-8412

LCC Class: ML128

Dewey Class: 016.78


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