African American Song is an online resource that documents the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others, and features some 16,000 tracks of historical recordings from the first half of the 20th century.

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