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BIBLIOGRAPHY

See also African-American Studies.

Lynn Abbott; Doug Seroff. Ragged But Right: Black Travelling Shows, "Coon Songs", and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz. University Press of Mississippi. 2007. 461pp.

Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje; Eddie S. Meadows (editor). California Soul: Music of African Americans in the West. University of California Press. 1998. 507pp.

Aaron Horne. Brass Music of Black Composers: A Bibliography. Greenwood Publishing Group. 1996. 521pp.

Arthur Kempton. Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music. University of Michigan Press. 2005. 468pp.

Teresa L. Reed. The Holy Profane: Religion in Black Popular Music. University Press of Kentucky. 2004. 200pp.

Eileen Southern. The Music of Black Americans: A History. W. W. Norton. 1997. 678pp.





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