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dc:creator Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program.
dc:date 1999-
dc:description "LC/Ameritech Award Winner"
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.
dc:description Offered as part of the American Memory online resource compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.
dc:description 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.
dc:description Title from home page as viewed on Nov. 9, 1999.
dc:identifier <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000019>
dc:language eng
dc:publisher [Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress, American Memory
dc:subject African Americans--Music.
dc:subject African Americans--Songs and music.
dc:subject Folk music--United States.
dc:subject Music--United States--19th century.
dc:subject Music--United States--20th century.
dc:subject Popular music--United States.
dc:subject sheet music; African-American
dc:title African-American sheet music, 1850-1920 selected from the collection of Brown University.
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