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A Walk through the Civil Rights Movement with the University Libraries: Music Library

Music Library

The Music Library's exhibit is located on the 1st floor of the music library, on top of the media collection cabinets.

Exhibit

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books
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album

Inspiration

image of a civil rights poster

Index of sources used

 

  • "When the spirit says sing!" : the role of freedom songs in the civil rights movement | Kerran L. Sanger | ML 3556 .S26 1995 - Music Library Circulation Desk - 2 Hour Reserve

  • A catalog of music written in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. | Anthony. McDonald | ML 128 .B45 C38 2012 - Music Library Reference Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • A movement for Rosa : for symphonic band : honoring civil rights heroine Rosa Parks | Mark Camphouse | M 1245 .C35M6 1994 - Music Library Scores (2nd floor)

  • A new anthology of art songs by African American composers | Margaret R. Simmons, Jeanine Wagner | M 1619 .N48 2004 - Music Library Scores (2nd floor) | CD 009063 - Music Library Media Collection (1st floor)

  • African heritage symphonic series. Vol. II. | Chicago Sinfonietta , Paul Freeman, Ulysses Kay, George Walker, Roque Cordero, Adolphus C. Hailstork, Hale Smith | CD 009500 - Music Library Media Collection (1st floor)

  • All shook up : how rock 'n' roll changed America | Glenn C. Altschuler | ML 3534 .A465 2003 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • August 4, 1964 | Steven Stucky, Gene Scheer, Indira Mahajan, Kristine Jepson, Vale Rideout, Rodney Gilfry, Jaap van Zweden, Steven. Stucky, Gene. Scheer, Dallas Symphony Chorus , Dallas Symphony Orchestra | CD 017745 - Music Library Media Collection (1st floor)

  • Beale black & blue : life and music on black America's main street | Margaret. McKee, Fred. Chisenhall | ML 3556 .M117 1993 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Blues music in the sixties : a story in Black and White | Ulrich Adelt | ML 3521 .A34 2010 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Concerto for clarinet and orchestra : ("From the mountaintop") : (2013) | Richard Danielpour | M 1024 .D35 C6 2015 - Music Library Scores (2nd floor)

  • Dancing to a black man's tune : a life of Scott Joplin | Susan Curtis | ML 410 .J75C8 1994 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Different drummers : rhythm and race in the Americas | Martin Munro | ML 3550 .M86 2010 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Duke Ellington's America | Harvey G. Cohen | ML 410 .E44 C56 2010 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Elegy for Martin Luther King : for piano | David. Ward-Steinman | M 25 .W359 E5 1969 - Music Library Scores (2nd floor)

  • Epitaph : In memoriam, Martin Luther King, Jr ; Piano concerto ; Celebration! | Adolphus C. Hailstork, JoAnn Falletta, Leon Bates, Gaylen Hatton, Mary Howe, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Virginia Symphony Orchestra | CD 022610 - Music Library Media Collection (1st floor)

  • Freedom is, freedom ain't : jazz and the making of the sixties | Scott. Saul | ML 3508 .S28 2003 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Get on board! Vol. 2 : underground railroad & civil rights freedom songs | Kim Harris, Reggie Harris, Appleseed Recordings | CD 021214 - Music Library Media Collection (1st floor)

  • I'll take you there : Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the march up freedom's highway | Greg. Kot | ML 400 .K68 2014 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • If I had a hammer : songs of hope & struggle | Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Les. Rice, Florence Reece, Joe Hill, Eddie. Newton, Millard Lampell, Alfred Hayes, Earl Robinson, Woody Guthrie, Waldemar Hille, Ralph Chaplin, Dave. Welsh, Vern Partlow, Sidney. Carter, Ed McCurdy, Leadbelly , Zilphia Horton, Frank Hamilton, Guy. Carawan, Andrew. Kovaly, Kin Lop Tse Collection | CD 016517 - Music Library Media Collection (1st floor)

  • Issues in African American music : power, gender, race, representation | Portia K. Maultsby, Mellonee V. Burnim | ML 3556 .I87 2017 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Just my soul responding : rhythm and blues, Black consciousness, and race relations | Brian Ward | ML 3479 .W37 1998 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Kennedy's blues : African-American blues and gospel songs on JFK | Guido van Rijn | ML3521 .R55 2007 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Lift every voice and sing : a celebration of the Negro national anthem | Julian Bond, Sondra K. Wilson | ML 3561 .L54L55 2000 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Mavis! : a film about Mavis Staples & the Staple Singers | Jessica Edwards | DVD 1913 - Music Library Media Collection (1st floor)

  • New morning for the world : Daybreak of freedom : for speaker and orchestra | Joseph C. Schwantner, Martin Luther King Jr., | 

    M 1625 .S38N4 1982 - Music Library Scores (2nd floor)

  • Norman Granz : the man who used jazz for justice | Tad. Hershorn | ML 429 .G696 H47 2011 - Music Library Scores (2nd floor)

  • Nothing but love in God's water | Bob Darden | ML 3556 .D37 2014 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Peacemakers : a filmic oratorio for chamber orchestra, narrator, sitar, children's choir, chorus, mezzo-soprano, piano soloist, soprano saxophone | James Aikman | 2018/003 - Grawemeyer Collection Circulation Desk - Library Use Only

  • People get ready : the future of jazz is now! | Ajay Heble, Rob Wallace | ML 3506 .P46 2013 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Popular music and human rights | Ian Peddie | ML 3918 .P67 P37 2011 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Reds, whites, and blues : social movements, folk music, and race in the United States | William G. Roy | ML 3918 .F65 R69 2010 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Right to rock : the Black Rock Coalition and the cultural politics of race | Maureen. Mahon | ML 3534 .M31 2004 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Rockin' the boat : mass music and mass movements | Reebee. Garofalo | ML 3534 .R6348 1992 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Sing for freedom : the story of the Civil Rights Movement through its songs | Guy Carawan, Candie Carawan, Julian Bond, Florence Reece | M 1977 .C47 S56 2007 - Music Library Scores (2nd floor)

  • Songs of America : patriotism, protest, and the music that made a nation | Jon Meacham, Tim McGraw | ML 3917 .U6 M43 2019 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Stand and be counted : making music, making history : the dramatic story of the artists and causes that changed America | David Crosby, David Bender | ML 3477 .C76 2000 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Story behind the protest song : a reference guide to the 50 songs that changed the 20th century | Hardeep Phull | ML 3551.5 .P58 2008 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • Symphony nr. 2, op. 25 | Jan Carlstedt | M 1001 .C27 no.2 - Music Library Scores (2nd floor)

  • The black warrior : an oratorio | Gunther Schuller, Martin Luther King Jr., | 2004/116 - Grawemeyer Collection Circulation Desk - Library Use Only | M 2000 .S37B4 1998 - Music Library Oversize Scores (2nd floor)

  • The promise : an opera based on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2004) | John Baur | 2006/004 - Grawemeyer Collection Circulation Desk - Library Use Only

  • The Routledge atlas of African American history | Jonathan Halperin Earle | E 185 .E125 2000 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)

  • To the mountaintop | André L. Wilson, Martin Luther King Jr. | 2004 W756 - Music Library Thesis Collection (3rd floor) | 2004 W557 - Music Library Thesis Collection (3rd floor)

  • Voices of the civil rights movement : Black American freedom songs, 1960-1966 | Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings. , Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies | CD 008907 - Music Library Media Collection (1st floor)

  • We insist! : Max Roach's Freedom now suite | Max Roach, Oscar Brown Jr., Abbey Lincoln, Coleman Hawkins, Babatunde Olatunji, Nat Hentoff | CD 010995 - Music Library Media Collection (1st floor)

  • Which side are you on? : 20th century American history in 100 protest songs | James Sullivan | ML 3917 .U6 S85 2019 - Music Library Book Stacks (3rd floor)