Black Composers in Classical Music

African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 contains African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Created in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress, African American Newspapers chronicles a century and a half of the African American.

African American Newspapers: The 19th Century contains information about the cultural life and history during the 1800s, with reports on events , including the Mexican War, Presidential and congressional addresses. Starting with the Freedom`s Journal in 1827 and continuing in chronological order with the addition of new text each year (downloaded monthly), this database will contain the complete text of the major African-American newspapers published in the United States during the 19th century.

African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 contains periodicals by and about African Americans. The publications include academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations' bulletins, annual reports and other genres.

Black Historical Newspapers contains primary source material from American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. It covers the periods from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights.

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers provides newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. This digital resource is sponsored by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.

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ProQuest Historical Newspapers contains many US and international newspapers from the 19th and 20th centuries, including the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Washington Post.

The Black Studies Center contains scholarly essays, periodicals, historical newspaper articles and reference books on Black Studies. It combines resources for research and teaching in Black Studies, including The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, Black Studies Periodicals Database (formerly IIBP), Black Literature Index, and the Chicago Defender historical newspaper from 1912-1975.

Black Thought and Culture is an electronic collection of non-fiction writings by black leaders in North America. It includes interviews, journal articles, speeches, essays, pamphlets, letters and other fugitive material.

International Index to Music Periodicals provides indexing and abstracts for international music periodicals. It also includes full text journals on music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theater, theory, popular music forms and composition.

RILM Abstracts contains citations on international music. The file is produced by the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale, and covers the period 1969 to the present.