@prefix oai: . @prefix oai2lod: . @prefix dc: . @prefix rdfs: . @prefix rdf: . @prefix owl: . a oai:Item ; dc:creator "Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program." ; dc:date "1999-" ; dc:description "Copyright and other restrictions: Permission to copy in any form or to publish material from the Collection must be obtained from Brown University Library." , "\"LC/Ameritech Award Winner\"" , "Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress." , "Selected from the Sheet Music Collection at the John Hay Library at Brown University. Consists of 1,305 pieces of American-American sheet music dating from 1850 through 1920. Includes many songs from the heyday of antebellum black face minstrelsy in the 1850s and from the abolitionist movement of the same period. Numerous titles are associated with the novel and the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Civil War period music includes songs about African-American soldiers and the plight of the newly emancipated slave. Post-Civil War music reflects the problems of Reconstruction and the beginnings of urbanization and the northern migration of African Americans. African-American popular composers include James Bland, Ernest Hogan, Bob Cole, James Reese Europe, and Will Marion Cook." , "Title from home page as viewed on Nov. 9, 1999." ; dc:identifier ; dc:language "eng" ; dc:publisher "[Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress, American Memory" ; dc:subject "Music--United States--20th century." , "Music--United States--19th century." , "sheet music; African-American" , "Folk music--United States." , "African Americans--Songs and music." , "Popular music--United States." , "African Americans--Music." ; dc:title "African-American sheet music, 1850-1920 selected from the collection of Brown University." ; oai:origin ; oai:set .