African American Sheet Music Brown University’s digital sheet music collection houses everything from antebellum black face performances to songs associated with the abolition movement and Uncle Tom’s Cabin to the works of James Bland, Ernest Hogan, Bob Cole, James Reese Europe, and Will Marion Cook.
African American Band Music & Recordings, 1883-1923: The Library of Congress’s band music and recording collection is home to rare sheet music and audio recordings of popular songs written and performed by African Americans from 1883-1923.