African American Studies: African American Music

Pictures to illustrate your work.

Work with your partner to share sources, notes, & images. Ms. Lamphier will show you how to set up a collaborative project using Noodletools.

Ms. Lamphier will show you how to create a collaborative Prezi, so you and your partner can work at the same time.

A unique website, the basis of which is a photograph of prominent jazz artists. Lists artists, styles, and their instruments.

Presents some of the big names in Jazz, with photos and sound clips.

Great music clips to embed in your prezi and brief sketches of performers.

To many teachers, Eyes on the Prize is the definitive source for information on the fight for equal rights. Find video clips, images, and audio here.

Listen to brief clips of the music presented by the Jubilee Singers as they shared the music of slavery with the American Public.

Provides artist biographies, clips, and the social background to the blues. The map feature (The Blues Road Trip) shows the geographic locations that helped develop the genre.

In the Exhibits pages, you will find several online exhibits that will work for your project: Cities & Sounds; The Roots of Rock and Rock: Blues, Gospel, County/Folk/Bluegrass and R&B.; Jimi Hendrix.

Includes a timeline of African American music from the time of slavery through the Civil Rights movement. Includes music samples.

This searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color offers data on race and slavery extracted from eighteenth and nineteenth-century documents. These include legislative petitions, county court petitions, wills, inventories, deeds, bills of sale, depositions, court proceedings, and amended petitions.