Music & the Civil Rights Movement: Materials in the CSU Music Library

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Reference collection

Call Number	Title
ML100 .G16 1998 v.3	Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, see heading "civil rights" in index
ML102 .P66 B65	American Popular Music: A Reference Guide
ML102 .P66 S5	Dictionary of American Pop/Rock, "civil rights songs" p. 74-75
ML156.4 .P6 C66 1986	A Resource Guide to Themes in Contemporary American Song Lyrics, 1950-1985, Chapter 9
ML3556 .R58 1992	Black American Music, "The Black Revolution" p. 187-188
ML3556 S.74 1997	The Music of Black Americans, "The Black Revolution" p.471-473

Circulating tracks

Call Number	Title
ML3477 .A48 1992	America's Musical Pulse, "Popular Music as Politics and Protest" p.3-12
ML3477 .H36	Guerilla Minstrels, p. 13-14, 57-58
ML3477 .M37 2000	Strange Fruit... early cry for civil rights [GALILEO netLibrary]
ML3550 .S43 1989	Everybody Says Freedom
See also:	ML 200's, ML3556, ML3561 for general books on the history of American music, African-American music, & popular American music

Periodical indices

The Music Index (print & online )

Web Sites

Music of the Civil Rights Movement http://www.sbgmusic.com/html/teacher/reference/historical/civilrights.html

African American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Era http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9b.html

CSU Main Library resources

Call Number/Location	Title
Govt Docs LC 1.12/2:C49	Brief list of material relating to freedom songs of the civil rights movement
VHS tape 541	We shall overcome (provides a history of the song & its influence on the civil rights movement)