African-American Music - A Print Bibliography

William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison. Slave Songs of the United States. New York: A. Simpson, 1867. Reprint, Bedford, Mass.: Applewood Books, 1995.

Horace Clarence Boyer. How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel. Photography by Lloyd Yearwood. Washington, D.C.: Elliott and Clark, 1995.
Short histories and biographies of black gospel performing groups.

Viv Broughton. Black Gospel: An Illustrated History of the Gospel Sound. Poole, England: Blandford Press, 1985.
Basic history with illustrations.

Cleveland Public Library. Index to Negro Spirituals. CBMR Monograph, no. 3. Chicago: Center for Black Music Research, 1991.

Dena J. Epstein. Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.
Scholarly study of slave music.

Anthony Heilbut. The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times. Rev. ed. New York: Limelight Editions, 1985.
Spotlights performers from the 1950s and 1960s.

Moses Hogan, ed. The Oxford Book of Spirituals. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Laurence James Willis. Stars in de Elements: A Study of Negro Folk Music. Ed. by Jon Michael Spencer (A Special issue of Black Sacred Music: A Journal of Theomusicology, vol. 9. Raleigh, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1995.)

John Lovell, Jr. Black Song: The Forge and the Flame. New York: Macmillan, 1972.