Mission
Statement
The Center for Black Music Research (CBMR) at Columbia College Chicago
documents, collects, preserves, and disseminates information about black
music in all parts of the world and promotes understanding of the common
roots of the music, musicians, and composers of the global African
diaspora.
The CBMR supports and originates study in the areas of black secular and
sacred folk music, blues, black rock, samba, ragtime, jazz, gospel music,
rhythm and blues, musical theater and dance, opera and concert music,
reggae, son, merengue/méringue, bomba y plena, salsa, calypso and other
genres from the Caribbean, traditional and contemporary music from Africa,
and hip-hop and other contemporary musics. |
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