| Web Site Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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African-American Sheet Music, 1850–1920 <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/aasmhome.html>. Created by Brown University Library and the National Digital Library Project, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Reviewed June 4–18, 2001.

This digital collection of song sheets has been selected from the approximately 500,000 pieces of music housed at the John Hay Library at Brown University. Roughly 6,000 items fall into the African Americana category, and of that number 1,305 are digitized at this site. The average length of each piece of sheet music is five or six pages, and the site does a remarkable job of clearly reproducing cover images, lyrics, and music for easy navigation and printing. The music spans the era from antebellum blackface minstrelsy through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century. The era is, of course, incredibly consequential in African American history, and this collection provides a valuable resource toward understanding the complex relationship between commercial culture and race politics. The site presents a wealth of primary source material about the rise of popular song, the burgeoning American entertainment industry, the centrality of racism to commercial culture, and the African American struggle to produce art in this milieu. . . .

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