Readings in Black American music
(Book)

The African heritage. From The golden trade / Richard Jobson ; From Travels in the interior districts of Africa / Mungo Park ; From Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee / Thomas Edward Bowdich --

Black singers and instrumentalists of early America. From Letters from the Rev. Samuel Davies and others / Samuel Davies and others ; Slave advertisements / eighteenth-century newspapers ; From Reminiscences of Newport / George Champlain Mason --

Slave holidays and festivals. Pinkster festivities in Albany / James Eights ; From Hartford in the olden time / Isaac W. Stuart ; From Journal of Latrobe / Benjamin Henry B. Latrobe --

Religious music in the nineteenth century. From A collection of hymns and spiritual songs / Richard Allen ; From Methodist error / John F. Watson ; From Recollections of seventy years / Daniel Alexander Payne --

Music on the plantation. From The old plantation / James Hungerford ; From My bondage and my freedom / Frederick Douglass ; From Six years in a Georgia prison / Lewis W. Paine ; From Twelve years a slave / Solomon Northup ; From Homes of the New World / Fredrika Bremer ; From the slave narrative collection --

Music in the cities in the nineteenth century. From The hermit in America / Robert Waln (Peter Atall) ; From Richmond in by-gone days / Samuel Mordecai ; From New York by gas light / George G. Foster ; From Music and some highly musical people / James M. Trotter --

General characteristics of slave music. From Slave songs of the United States / William Francis Allen ; From Army life in a black regiment / Thomas W. Higginson ; From The souls of Black folk / W.E.B. DuBois --

The music of a free people. The heart of the blues from Father of the blues / William Christopher Handy ; Clorindy, the origin of the cakewalk / Will Marion Cook ; A Negro explains "Jazz" / James Reese Europe ; From From Harlem to the Rhine / Arthur Little ; From His eye is on the sparrow / Ethel Waters ; The jazz avant-garde / Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) ; From Movin' on up / Mahalia Jackson ; Notes on the Negro spiritual / Hall Johnson ; The structure of music / William Grant Still ; From Black composers and the avant-garde / Thomas Jefferson Anderson ; Here I stand / Hale Smith ; Does a Black Mozart, or Stravinsky, wait in the wings? (Black art music) ; Music mailbag : of Black art music / Carman Moore.