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Collections
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Black Patti Records
Paramount Records
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Black Swan Label
- Classical Black Composers & Black Swans Mid Century
- Decca West Africa
- Dinka Songs from South Sudan
- Fisk Jubilee Singers
- The Complete Haiti Lomax Recordings
- Senegal British Library Collection
- The Black Orators
- Tuskegee Institute Singers Collection
- Ethnographic Cylinder Collection
- Andaman Islands India Collection
- Oceanic & Australia Wax Cylinders
- Nepal British Library Collection
Introductory Online Reading
A Selection of Digital Books and Resources for Further Study
Books and Articles on Early Historical African and African Diasporic Recordings
Research Books and Papers on Language Preservation
All Reading Material is in PDF Format unless Specified
Recorded Music and Sound
African Music on LP an Annotated Discography by Alan Meriam
Black Europe Volume 1 by Jeffrey P. Green, Rainer E. Lotz, Howard Rye
Black Europe Volume 2 by Jeffrey P. Green, Rainer E. Lotz, Howard Rye
Black Recording Artists 1877-1926 Compiled by Craig Gibbs
Field Recordings of Black Singers and Musicians: Annotated Discography 1901-1943 by Craig Gibbs
Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry: 1890-1919 by Tim Brooks (AZW3 File)
The History of Juju Music A History of An African Popular Music from Nigeria by T Ajayi Thomas
The Issue of Racism in Early Recorded Music article by Jonathan Emeruwa (website link)
Language Preservation
A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language: An Ethnolinguistic Study by Anvita Abbi
A Study on the Extinction of Indigenous Languages in Nigeria by Susan Akinkurolere
In Search of Language Contact Between Jarawa and Aka-Bea by Anvita Abbi and Pramod Kumar
UNESCO Prediction on the Extinction of the Igbo Language by Kelechi Ani Johnmary
Photo taken by: Anna Craven in January 1970 in the Gwargwada District, Nasarawa Division, Benue Province Nigeria
