African-American Music Reference offers coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression through 1970. Resources include biographies, anthologies, encyclopedias, images, lyrics , song sheets, chronologies, critical textbooks, a comprehensive discography of the top African-American artists, and links to editorially selected Web resources.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n