This page provides a selection of field recordings and commercial recordings of African-American banjo players that are available to researchers on-site at the Library of Congress; item links lead to fuller bibliographic information in the Library's Online Catalog. Field recordings on this page may be accessed in the American Folklife Center Reading Room. Commercial recordings are held in the Recorded Sound Research Center.
Note: Some field recordings are held in archival collections outside of the Library of Congress. Many have been published as commercial recordings.