External Resources
Indiana University is a major research center for the study of black music. In addition to the Archives of African American Music and Culture, the Bloomington campus offers the following programs and collections:
African American Arts Institute
One of the premier university performing arts programs in the nation, the AAAI
seeks to promote and preserve African American culture through performance,
education, creative activity, research, and outreach. The AAAI’s performing
ensembles include the IU Soul Revue, the African American Dance Company, and
the African American Choral Ensemble.
African American & African
Diaspora Studies Department
The multidisciplinary Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies
creates and shares with academic and nonacademic communities’ scholarship
of the highest quality dealing with the broad range of the African American and
African diasporic experience.
Archives of Traditional
Music
The largest university-based ethnographic sound archives in the U.S., the ATM
is dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of the world's music and oral
traditions. The collection includes cylinders, audio and video tapes, as well
as original manuscripts, correspondence, and field materials of some of the field's
most influential scholars. Holdings include field recordings of early African
American music in addition to thousands of commercial recordings of popular music
including jazz and blues.
Black Film Center/Archive
The BFC is a repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans.
Included are films which have substantial participation by African Americans
as writers, actors, producers, directors, musicians, and consultants, as well
as those which depict some aspect of black experience.
Ethnomusicology
Institute
The internationally recognized Ethnomusicology Institute emphasizes an interdisciplinary
approach to the study of music and culture throughout the world. Course offerings
cover various facets of African American sacred and secular music traditions.
IU Libraries
The Indiana University Libraries homepage provides links to all campus libraries
and collections as well as IUCAT, the online catalog, and other databases and
services.
Neal-Marshall
Black Culture Center Library
A branch of the IU Libraries, the BCC Library is a distinguished reference and
information center that provides networking, cultural research, and bibliographic
instruction and learning for students, faculty, and staff.
William & Gayle
Cook Music Library
The Cook Music Library, recognized as one of the largest academic music libraries in the United States with
over 600,000 items, serves the world-renowned Jacobs
School of Music and Bloomington Campus of
Indiana University. The library’s Black Music
Collection, established in 1970, includes over 3,000 books, scores, and recordings.
