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  • Afro-American folksongs; a study in racial and national music.

    • Text
    • New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co. [1962]
    • 1962-1914
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 784.7-K (Krehbiel, H. Afro-American folksongs. 1962)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text Sc 784.7-K (Krehbiel, H. Afro-American folksongs. 1962)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Afro-American folksongs / a study in racial and national music, by Henry Edward Krehbiel...

    • Text
    • New York ; and London : G. Schirmer, [1914]
    • 1914
    • 3 Items

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MFFB (U.S.-Negro) (Krehbiel, H.E. Afro-American folksongs)Offsite
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    Text *MFFB (U.S.-Negro) (Krehbiel, H.E. Afro-American folksongs)Offsite

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    Text Sc 784.7-K (Krehbiel, H. Afro-American folksongs. 1914)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Negro in American culture; based on materials left by Alain Locke.

    • Text
    • New York, Knopf, 1956.
    • 1956
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 917.3-B (Butcher, M. Negro in American culture. 1956)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • [1990 CEBA awards. Category 28] [videorecording] : [single feature segments, single entries].

    • Moving image
    • United States : [various stations], 1989.
    • 1989
  • Daybreak. Gotta dance [videorecording] / WCBS-TV ; executive producer, Harriet Shelare ; directed by Michael Albanese.

    • Moving image
    • United States : WCBS-TV, 1984-05.
    • 1984
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-838 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    Moving image Sc Visual VRB-1951Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Jazz dance : Geschichte, Theorie, Praxis / Helmut Günther.

    • Text
    • Berlin : Henschel Verlag, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGV 93-1517Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • [Songs / composed by Shelton Brooks].

    • Notated music
    • 1910-1934.
    • 1910-1934
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Sc Scores BrooksSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • [Piano solos / composed by Paul Rubens].

    • Notated music
    • 1899-1902.
    • 1899-1902
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Sc Scores RubensSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Atiba's a comin' [microform] : the rise of social dance formations in Afro-American culture / by Katrina Yovonne Hazzard-Gordon.

    • Text
    • c1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *XMD-503Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Pearl Primus, in search of her roots : 1943-1970 [microform] / by Beverly Anne Hillsman Barber.

    • Text
    • c1984.
    • 1984
  • Black dance continuum [microform] : reflections on the heritage connection between African dance and Afro-American jazz dance / Felix O. Begho.

    • Text
    • c1984.
    • 1985-1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *XMD-345Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Parallels of African-based movement traits and aesthetic principles in selected examples of American modern dance [microform] / by Julie A. Kerr.

    • Text
    • c1990.
    • 1991-1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *XMD-528Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • The seminal years of black concert dance [microform] / by John O. Perpener III.

    • Text
    • c1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *XMD-622Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • The dance [microform] : research studies / compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in New York City, for "Negroes of New York".

    • Text
    • [New York, 1936-1940]
    • 1936-1940
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro R-6544 r. 2Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • African American genius in modern dance.

    • Text
    • [Durham, N.C. : American Dance Festival, 1993?]
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc G 97-41Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater photograph collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • 1955-[198-]
    • 1955-198
    • 5 Items

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    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/adcedf70-ab22-0137-4f6f-45a28b658ce0
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Collection box 1Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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    Still image Sc Photo Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Collection box 2Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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    Still image Sc Photo Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Collection box 3Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Alvin Ailey / Andrea Davis Pinkney ; illustrated by Brian Pinkney.

    • Text
    • New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 94-316Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Pearl Primus, in search of her roots : 1943-1970 / by Beverly Anne Hillsman Barber.

    • Text
    • c1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 94-466Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Marion Cuyjet : visionary of dance education in Black Philadelphia / by Melanye P. White-Dixon.

    • Text
    • [Philadelphia, Pa. : s.n.], 1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 95-2Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Black dancer : coping with the politics of dance / by Karen King-Cavin.

    • Text
    • 1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 95-11Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Three Black pioneers in American modern dance 1931-1945 : the dance careers of Hemsley Winfield, Edna Guy, and Wilson Williams / by Josephine Monica Nicholson.

    • Text
    • 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 95-12Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Revelations : the autobiography of Alvin Ailey / by Alvin Ailey with A. Peter Bailey.

    • Text
    • Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, c1995.
    • 1995
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGYB (Ailey) 95-403Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    Text Sc E 95-210Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • An African American dance forum

    • Moving image
    • New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 4 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-206a Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-206b Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-37a Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Black visions '89 : movements of ten dance masters : January 30-February 24, 1989 / [James Briggs Murray, exhibition curator].

    • Text
    • New York : Tweed Gallery at City Hall Park, 1989.
    • 1989
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Art F 97-39Schomburg Center - Art & Artifacts

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    Text Sc F 95-193Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Jazz parades [videorecording] : feet don't fail me now / [presented by] North Carolina Public TV ; written, directed and produced by Alan Lomax ; editor, Alison Ellwood.

    • Moving image
    • [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video ; Beverly Hills, Calif. : Pacific Arts Video [distributor], c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *LVH 780 (F) Container on fileOffsite
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  • Oral history interview with Ernie Smith / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by James Briggs Murray.

    • Moving image
    • New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1986.
    • 1986-927
    • 6 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1319 Disc 1Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1319 Disc 2Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1319 Disc 3Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Not Black tie, Black tights / Dance Theatre of Harlem.

    • Text
    • New York : [The Theatre], 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 91-408Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Talking drums! : the journal of Black dance.

    • Text
    • Los Angeles, Ca. : International Center for Dance Orthopaedics and Dance Therapy
    • unknown-present
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Ser.-N .T3548 v. 1, no. 1-4; v. 2, no. 1; v. 3, no. 1-2; v. 5, vo. 1 (May 1989-May 1990; Jan. 1992; Feb.-Sept. 1993; Jan. 1995)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The story of Negro dance in America / Walter Terry.

    • Audio
    • 1963.
    • 1963-814
    • 1 Resource

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    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/146d6160-3ba6-0134-fec0-60f81dd2b63c
  • Interview with Katherine Flowers [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • 1963.
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *MGZTC 3-25Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Lecture on the history of dance in America.

    • Audio
    • 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Resource

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    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/67f979a0-3ba6-0134-8685-60f81dd2b63c
  • Interview with Fred Benjamin [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *MGZTC 3-1105Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
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  • Aeroplane wing.

    • Still image
    • [19--]
    • 1900-1967
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image *MGZGB Blo S 5Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Television. Dance Black America [clippings]

    • Text
  • Sweet Saturday Night [clippings]

    • Text
    • 1983-
  • African-American fraternity step dancing [clippings]

    • Text
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZR (African-American fraternity step dancing)Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Dancing. Dancing in one world [videorecording]

    • Moving image
    • c1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *MGZIC 9-4115Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
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  • Interview with Fred Benjamin.

    • Text
    • 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZMT 3-1105Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • The legacy of the minstrel show.

    • Text
    • 1978
  • Twentieth anniversary : Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater : 1958-1978.

    • Text
    • [New York : Souvenir Book Publishers, Inc., 1978]
    • 1978
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 11-117 no. 1-4Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text *MGZBPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Royal Vauxhall Gardens : opinions of the London press on the performances of Mr. G.W. Pell's Serenaders, including Boz's Juba, T.F. Briggs, the greatest banjo player in the world, J.H. Everton, J.W. Valentine, and M.C. Ludlow, lately arrived from America.

    • Text
    • Lambeth : W.J. Dailey, printer, opposite the church, New Cut, Lambeth, [1848?]
    • 1848
    • 1 Item

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    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0c6b1a70-746b-0134-9574-00505686a51c
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZP-19+++ Lon V 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
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  • Alvin Ailey : a life in dance / Jennifer Dunning.

    • Text
    • Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 96-851Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • A bibliographic essay and selected bibliography of African dance.

    • Text
    • 1996
  • Tap dance : manifestation of the African aesthetic.

    • Text
    • 1996
  • Dancing under the lash : sociocultural disruption, continuity, and synthesis.

    • Text
    • 1996
  • Reports.

    • Text
    • 1996
  • The representation of African dance on the concert stage : from the early Black musical to Pearl Primus / by Leah Creque-Harris.

    • Text
    • 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 97-132Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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  • Swingin' at the Savoy : the memoir of a jazz dancer / Norma Miller with Evette Jensen.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 97-154Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • On transforming visions of nutcrackers and sugar plum fairies into kinaras, geles and brownsugar ladies.

    • Text
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZR (1990-1999)Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • The image of dance in Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the widow.

    • Text
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGZR (1990-1999)Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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