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Black Music Research Journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ15752689 ↗
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The Black Music Research Journal was a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Illinois Press on behalf of the Center for Black Music Research at the Columbia College Chicago. It covers the philosophy, aesthetics, history, and criticism of black music. It was established in 1980 by Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. and the editor-in-chief was Horace J. Maxile, Jr. (Columbia College Chicago). The journal was abstracted and indexed in Academic ASAP, Academic OneFile, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Arts & Humanities, and Expanded Academic ASAP. It ceased publication with volume 36 (2016).

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Website.

Center for Black Music Research Website.

Samuel A. Floyd, Jr.

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This entry incorporates text from “Black Music Research Journal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.