This guide is designed to kickstart student research in Africana Music by highlighting key resources, databases, and strategies in the discipline. This first page is dedicated to broader Africana Music databases and sources, and the other pages are organized by topics within Africana Music.
The following are some best bets for starting music research. For a full list of databases at Oberlin, check out our Databases A-Z.
Covers the Black experience from ancient Africa to the modern day from perspectives in history, literature, political science, sociology, philosophy, music, visual arts, and religion. Includes index to Black Literature (1827-1940), Black Studies Periodical Database, and the full text backfile (1910-2010) of the influential black newspaper The Chicago Defender.
Black Music and Musicians in the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and the New Harvard Dictionary of Music
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Dominique-Rene De Lerma; Marsha J. Reisser
An Annotated Catalog of Composers of African Ancestry
by
Madison H. Carter
Black Concert and Recital Music: A Provisional Repertoire List
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Dominique-René De Lerma
Subject headings are labels used by librarians to consistently index or organize their collections. Here are some possible subject headings to search for Africana music resources on Search.Libraries.