For Reseach:
Journals
Studies in Black Literature:
Per PS153.N5A1
African American Review (1992-) - online through several vendors
Callaloo (1976-) online through JSTOR/Project Muse
Black American Literature Forum (1976-1991) online through JSTOR
Negro American Literature Forum (1967-1976) online through JSTOR
Transition (1961-2001) available through JSTOR
MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States through JSTOR/Project
MUSE
You can find links to all these periodicals by visiting the library's "Magazine
and Journal Title List" (http://lh3ek9yz9r.search.serialssolutions.com/)
and typing the name of the periodical in question in the search box. From there,
you can simply select the appropriate link to the resource.
Recommended Books:
Abrams, Rober D. Deep down in the jungle: Negro narrative folklore from
the streets of
Philadelphia GR103.A2 1970
Black Orpheus: music in African American fiction from the Harlem
Renaissance to Toni Morrison
(electronic resource: PS374.N4B59 2000)
Brooks, Tilford. American Black Music Heritage (1984)
Brown, Cecil. Stagolee Shot Billy. U Harvard Press, 2003.
Cataliotti, Robert. Music in African American Fiction (1995)
Haralambos, Michael.
Right On: From Blues to Soul in Black America.
Jackson, Bruce. Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: African American
Narrative
Poetry from Oral Tradition. PS477.5 T6J3
Kempton, Arthur. Boogaloo: the quintessence of American Popular
Music (2003)
Levine, Lawrence. Black culture and black consciousness: from
slavery to freedom
Roach, Hildred. Black American Music, Past and Present (1992)
Roberts, John. From Trickster to Badman: The
Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom, 1989
Rose, Tricia. Black Noise: rap music and black culture in contemporary America,
1994.
Shaw, Arnold. Black Popular Music in America from the spirituals,
minstrels and ragtime to soul,
disco and hip hop 1985)
Southern, Eileen. The Music of Black Americans: a history (1997)
Van Deburg, William L., New day in Babylon : the Black power movement and
American culture, 1965-1975.
Werner, Craig. A change is gonna come: music, race and the soul
of America, 1991
Ward, Brian. Just My Soul Responding: rhythm and blues, black
consciousness and the 1998
Other
Resources
Speeches and Papers of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
Lionel Hampton
Jazz Festival
UI International Jazz Collection
International Jazz Collection