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Harlem Renaissance: Music

Resources pertaining to the Harlem Renaissance, with an emphasis on materials at the McNairy Library and The Carl Van Vechten Memorial Collection held by Millersville University's Archives and Special Collections.

Databases

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Includes The Encylopedia of Popular Music, Grove Music Online, Oxford Companion to Music and Oxford Dictionary of Music.

Musicians

Billie Holiday by Donald Clarke
ISBN: 9780306811364
Publication Date: 2002-06-20
eBook
Ella Fitzgerald by Stuart Nicholson
Call Number: ML420.F52 N5 1994
ISBN: 0684196999
Publication Date: 1994-06-01
Ellington by David Bradbury
Call Number: ML410.E44 B73x 2005
ISBN: 1904341667
Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Father of the Blues by W. C. Handy; Arna Bontemps (Editor); Abbe Niles
Call Number: ML410.H18 A3 1970
ISBN: 0306804212
Publication Date: 1970
Louis Armstrong by Laurence Bergreen
Call Number: ML419.A75 B47 1997
ISBN: 0553067680
Publication Date: 1997-06-16
Marian Anderson by Allan Keiler
Call Number: ML420.A6 K45 2000
ISBN: 0684807114
Publication Date: 2000-02-22
Eubie Blake by Al Rose
Call Number: ML410.B6247 R68
ISBN: 0028721705
Publication Date: 1979-11-01

Composers

Harry T. Burleigh by Jean E. Snyder
ISBN: 9780252039942
Publication Date: 2016-02-19
eBook
William Grant Still by Catherine Parsons Smith; Gayle Murchison (Contribution by); Willard Gatewood (Contribution by)
ISBN: 9780520215436
Publication Date: 2000-03-30
eBook

Scores

Bessie Smith : Empress of the Blues by compilation and biography by Chris Albertson ; notes on Bessie Smith's singing style by Gunther Schuller ; musical arrangements by George N. Terry ; edited by Clifford Richter.
Call Number: M1630.18.S615 S6x 1975b
Publication Date: 1975
Florence Price by Florence Price; Rae Linda Brown (Editor); Wayne Shirley (Editor)
Call Number: M2.3.U6 R4 vol. 66
ISBN: 9780895796387
Publication Date: 2008-01-01

Other Titles

Just Tell the Story by Judith Anne Still (Editor); Lisa M. Headlee (Editor)
Call Number: ML410.S855 J87x 2006
ISBN: 1877873020
Publication Date: 2006-09-01
Deep River by Paul Allen Anderson
Call Number: ML3556 .A53 2001
ISBN: 0822325918
Publication Date: 2001-07-19
The New Negroes and Their Music by Jon M. Spencer
Call Number: ML3556 .S77 1997
ISBN: 087049967X
Publication Date: 1997-05-01

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