Roots of Black Music in America

Hausa drum group

Bahamian drum group

Ewe drum orchestra

New York street musicians

Wolof women

Andros Island musicians

Gio laborers recorded at Bromley on the St. Paul River

New Orleans street drummer

Baby Dodds

Baoule drum orchestra

New York jazz drummer

Six Kpelle bush-cutters singing while cutting grass

Coffee sifters at United Africa Corp warehouse, Bamenda, Cameroon

Jamaican construction workers

Dogon singers and musicians

Prisoners at the Ramsey and Retrieve State Farms, Texas

Fon's wives (Cameroon) & Children from Lilly's Chapel School, Alabama

Group of old Akan women

Kumina musicians

Bafut musicians

Wolof musician playing halam (five-stringed lute)

J.D. Short

Two Wolof musicians playing halam (five stringed lute)

Tuareg musicians

Willie Chapman

Wade Ward

Roscoe Holcomb

Pepe Kroma

Jeffly and Bo, two Bassa men in Gbanga, Central Province

Baoule musician

Maximiliano Valencia

Male singer accompanied by two balafon players

Baoulé musicians playing xylophone

A marimba group from Veracruz

Jon Wieh

Utah Smith

Daddy Hotcakes

Andros Island musicians

Eureka Brass Band

The Spirit of Memphis Quartet

Norman Granz' Jazz At The Philharmonic