African American Sheet Music, 1820-1920
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African American Sheet Music, 1820-1920
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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.
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