African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown University Span: 1850-1920 English web presentation This sheet music collection illuminates in a direct, vivid, and dramatic way many aspects of American culture and society from the 1850s to the 1920s, including theatre, music, and dance, publishing history, music printing and illustration. These materials also reflect a variety of social concerns and events from the time, such as abolitionism and the Civil War, the problems of Reconstruction, urbanization, the African-American soldier in three wars, and the social position of and attitudes toward African Americans throughout a critical period in history. Sheet music African-American Sheet Music Music reflecting African-American culture and key social issues. African Americans in the Performing Arts Popular Music Brown University Performing Arts Encyclopedia scdb Brown University Library http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/aasmhome.html IHAS 080118 loc.natlib.scdb.200033562