Archives of African music and culture (AAMC)

title

Archives of African music and culture (AAMC)

homepage

https://aaamc.indiana.edu/

description

Established in 1991, the Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC) is a repository of materials covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. The collections highlight popular, religious, and classical music, with genres ranging from blues and gospel to R&B and contemporary hip hop. The AAAMC also houses extensive materials related to the documentation of Black radio.

creator or project

Indiana University

type

Catalogue

purpose

Learning

audience

performers

scholars

amateurs

listeners

task or research field

history

performance

example resource

https://aaamc.indiana.edu/Collections/Bala-Baptiste

type of collected resources

Performance

scope of the collection

Genre

Geographical

geographical scope of data

United States of America

music genre in scope

African-American music

rhythm and blues

Black music

classical music

hip hop music

religious music

popular music

category of data collected

Media

Metadata

collection size

<1M

data formats

pdf

html

data license

Open Access

data size

~Gb


URI

https://w3id.org/musow/1639037748-4481337