LibGuides: Black Music: Find Books

Subject Search Terms

African Americans--music
Blues (music)
Gospel music
Hip hop
Jazz
Motown Record Corporation
Ragtime music
Rap (music)
Reggae music
Rhythm and blues music
Soul music
Spirituals (songs)

Selected E-Books

The following is a small selection of the many e-books on Black music available through the FAU Libraries. For a complete listing of all available print and e-books, search the FAU Libraries Catalog.

Bessie
Bob Marley : a biography
Great God a'mighty! the Dixie Hummingbirds : celebrating the rise of soul gospel music
A house on fire : the rise and fall of Philadelphia soul
Icons of hip hop : an encyclopedia of the movement, music, and culture
Icons of R&B and soul : an encyclopedia of the artists who revolutionized rhythm
In search of the blues
International dictionary of black composers
Jelly's blues : the life, music, and redemption of Jelly Roll Morton
Monk's music : Thelonious Monk and jazz history in the making
Race music : black cultures from bebop to hip-hop
Singing in my soul : black gospel music in a secular age
Subversive sounds : race and the birth of jazz in New Orleans
Swamp pop : Cajun and Creole rhythm and blues
What is this thing called jazz? : African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists

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