Arts and Entertainment – African American

 

African American Art on the Internet

http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavawww.htm

Links to galleries, museums, exhibits, and resources about individual artists, such as Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and Faith Ringgold.

 

African American Sheet Music, 1850-1920 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/sheetmusic/brown

A Brown University collection of ballads, love songs, military tunes, minstrel music, ragtime classics, spirituals, and other popular songs, digitized by the Library of Congress. "Particularly significant in this collection are the visual depictions of African Americans which provide much information about racial attitudes over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."

 

African Americans in Motion Pictures 

http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/movies.htm

Discussions of early independent filmmakers, race movies, the integration period, comedians, experimental film, established celebrities, and other themes make this an engaging resource.

 

African Americans in the Visual Arts  

http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavaahp.htm

African influences, the Harlem Renaissance, the WPA, museums, and famous artists.

 

Afrocentric Voices in Classical Music  
http://www.afrovoices.com/index.html 

Learn about the contributions of such luminaries as Kathleen Battle,  H.T. Burleigh, and Leontyne Price; and enjoy exploring the suggested links to a wide range of genres.

 

Archives of African American Music

http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/netresources.html

Links to blues, classical, gospel, jazz, r&b, rap, rock, soul; even composers, music education, radio stations, and more.

 

Black Film Center/Archive 

http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/links.shtml

This "Selected List of Film-Related Internet Resources" links users to websites about actors, directors, and producers; distributors; film festivals; reviews; periodicals; and other resources relevant to African Americans in film.

 

Black Talent News 

http://www.blacktalentnews.com

Black Hollywood and music reports from the Black Entertainment Network.

 

Black Baseball's Negro Baseball Leagues 

http://www.blackbaseball.com

A vast site about the sport's history, players, and teams; with current events as well.

 

Blackflix.com 

http://www.blackflix.com

African American movie stars, reviews, interviews, music notes, industry business, links, and other popular features.

 

Free to Dance 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/freetodance

Chronicle of African American dance, with marvelous biographies and probing commentaries.

 

Jazz History: A Great Day in Harlem 

http://www.harlem.org

"Explore jazz history through one photograph" and find information about instruments, historic event, or artist.

 

Lift Every Voice and Sing  

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15588

Written in 1900 by James Weldon Johnson to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's birthday, this poem was set to music by J. Rosamond Johnson and was referred to by generations as "The Negro National Anthem." The Academy of American Poets site gives texts of other Johnson poems as well as biographical and critical material.

 

MelaNet Kwanzaa Information Center 

http://www.melanet.com/kwanzaa/whatis.html

"While Kwanzaa is a seasonal event, the seven principles...are intended to be a year-round way of life."

 

Midnight Ramble  

http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/black 

Black Hollywood, from the 1920’s through the 1940’s, described and pictured in intriguing detail.

 

Negro Baseball League  

http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com

History, teams, players, and links to additional resources.

 

PBS-JAZZ, A Film by Ken Burns  

http://www.pbs.org/jazz

Enhancing the television documentary on the history of jazz, this site includes biographies, links, the special situation of women in jazz, live jazz venues, etc.

 

Pioneering Cartoonists of Color  

http://tinyurl.com/8axht8 

Biographies and art of African American cartoonists.  Search by cartoonist, by cartoon title, or by character name.  

 

Vibe Magazine Online  

http://www.vibe.com

Cool site of contemporary music, movies, comics, and other entertainment.

 

World-Wide Black Radio Stations  

http://www.radioblack.com

"A collective guide to radio stations around the world, with radio formats catering to the Black, urban, African American market and fans....[of] music formats such as: gospel, hiphop, r&b, jazz, blues, soul, reggae, Caribbean, Soca, dancehall, go-go, African, and talk relevant to the black community."

 

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