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The University of South Carolina’s Center for Southern African American Music is an astounding resource of audio, video, and print ephemera of black music from the first half of the twentieth century. Prison and gospel songs, jazz and blues standard, and even some traditional Gullah music are in the audio section, while the smaller video selection has an incredible video of a 1929 river baptism as well as a performance by the Jenkins Orphanage Band from Charleston a year earlier. Be prepared to spend some time here.
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