Music

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Page created by Scott Stone, Research Librarian for Performing Arts. Always feel free to reach out if you have any questions about resources on this page or if you'd like additional assistance exploring beyond what are listed here: stonesm@uci.edu

WATCH

The streaming video databases Kanopy and AVON both have many more videos, including documentaries and filmed performances, related to jazz. Here are pre-programmed searches to help you narrow the results a bit and explore a bit.

• AVON
• Kanopy

READ

READ

African American Music Reference * contains essays and liner notes related to blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. Includes books like the following selections (and many more):

• African American Music, A Chronology: 1619-1995
• Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
• The Color of Jazz: Race and Representation in Postwar American Culture
• The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop and Why It Matters
• Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age

LISTEN

Jazz Music Library * lets you listen to over 10,000 different streaming albums that spans many major and minor figures, like Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, and Billie Holiday, along with many different genres, like swing, hard-bop, soul jazz, etc. Also included with many (but not all) albums are extensive liner notes that can be excellent sources of information about that particular recording and where it fits into music history and culture; look for the "related documents" tab once you've opened an album to play.

American Music * lets you listen to almost 8,000 different streaming albums that span many different popular music genres throughout American music history. You can find music from genres like blues, gospel, and R&B. Like the previous resource, look for the "related documents" tab to find liner notes for more information about that album.