Traditional Black music

Presents the music and words of spirituals with a brief introduction to each describing its significance to African-American history.

Presents songs sung by black men and women as they toiled in our country's fields and factories, and on railroads, highways and prison gangs.

A collection of more than two dozen songs sung by African American slaves.

A collection of gospel sons proclaiming the good news of God's deliverance.

Black Christmas music, is the universal language of joy, of hope, and of the assurance that personal salvation is at hand for all the children of God.

An illustrated songbook of the Black music that was sung during the civil rights protests of the 1960's.

A collection of African-American ballads. The stories told in these folk tunes cover a wide range of subjects, from the assassination of a president, to the marriage of a young couple, the the mischief of the boll weevil.

Thirty songs with an Afro-American source, including One More River, The Grey Goose, and Hush Little Children.

Presents the songs of the chain gang and the railroad crew, the farmer and the stevedore--songs that bound workers together and helped them endure hardship.

A collection of songs that have their roots in the music created by African slaves in the West Indies in the 18th and early 19th centuries.