African American Sheet Music, 1820-1920

title

African American Sheet Music, 1820-1920

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description

Over 1400 pieces of 19th and early-20th century sheet music digitized from the collections of Brown University. Contents feature minstrelsy, abolitionist, Civil War, Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction music, early African-American musical theatre, and World War I-era music. Brown's sheet music collections include approximately 6000 pieces of African-Americana, from which this digital collection has been drawn.            

creator or project

1820-1920

African American Sheet Music

type

Repository

purpose

Research

audience

researchers

task or research field

music history

social history

technical features

Provides interfaces for browsing contents

Provides user-friendly interfaces

Shares data in open data formats

Provides user-friendly search interfaces

Offers a Web API

Offers data export or dump

reused resources

LCSH classification

example resource

here

type of collected resources

Score

scope of the collection

Temporal

Geographical

category of data collected

Symbolic

music data features

Descriptive Metadata

collection size

<10000

data formats

iiif

jpg

json

mods/xml

mets/xml

data license

Open Access

data size

~Gb


URI

https://w3id.org/musow/1635268063-586186