Slavery & Freedom: Musical Traditions

“This collection contains more than 3000 slides, 500 photographs, and 50 hours of sounds from forty-five different countries.” From the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.

Includes podcasts on black music, bibliiographies, genre definitions, etc.

Brief essays on the influence of slavery on jazz along with audio excerpts from the Ken Burns documentary, Jazz.

The WPA audio collection includes “twenty-eight songs (or song fragments) are included in the recordings. Many of the songs are difficult to identify because folk melodies and lyrics tend to change over time. Song titles, when known or surmised, and the recordings in which they are included are noted in the Song Title List.”