Performing Arts

Civil Rights Music

– – – Books – – –

Guy Carawan, Candie Carawan, Julian Bond, and Florence Reece. Sing for Freedom: The Story of The Civil Rights Movement
Through its Songs. (Montgomery, Ala: NewSouth Books, 2007).

Ingrid T. Monson. Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz And Africa. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

Reiland Rabaka. Civil Rights Music: The Soundtracks of The Civil Rights Movement. (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2016).

Doreen Rappaport and Shane Evans. Nobody Gonna Turn Me ‘Round: Stories and Songs of The Civil Rights Movement.
(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2008). 

Reiland Rabaka. The Hip Hop Movement: From R & B and The Civil Rights Movement to Rap and
The Hip Hop Generation. (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2013).

– – – Articles – – –

Katherine D. Power, “Musical Influence on Apartheid and the Civil Rights Movement,”
The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College, Spring 2014.

– – – Websites – – –

Nick Morrison, “Songs of The Civil Rights Movement,” NPR, January 18, 2010.

“The Role of Music in the Civil Rights Movement,” Kent State University.

“The Impact of Music on the Civil Rights Movement,” Longwood Blogs.

“Music in the Civil Rights Movement,” Library of Congress.

“Sounds of the Civil Rights Movement,” Smithsonian Folk Ways Recordings [Explore].

 Nathan Todd, “Songs of the Civil Rights Movement,” AXS, January 18, 2016.

 

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