• 251 Music Library (Mills)
• 1 Art Library (Kohler)

• 428 Sound Recordings
• 4 Books
• 3 Videos, Slides, Films
• 1 Music Scores

• 129 Compact Discs
• 85 Vinyl Records
• 2 Cassette Tapes
• 2 DVDs

• 66 Jazz
• 42 Jazz vocals
• 41 Rhythm and blues music
• 39 Popular music
• 10 Country music
• 10 Piano music (Blues)
• 9 Folk music
• 9 Folk songs, English
• 9 Rock music
• 8 Doo-wop (Music)
• 7 Gospel music
• 7 Guitar music (Blues)
• 5 Prisoners' songs
• 4 African Americans
• 4 Big band music
• 4 Boogie woogie (Music)
• 4 History and criticism
• 4 Spirituals (Songs)
• 4 Trumpet music (Jazz)
• 3 Harmonica music
• 3 Old-time music
• 3 Piano music (Jazz)
• 3 Swing (Music)
• 2 Blues musicians

• 32 James McKinty Collection
• 25 Hopkins, Lightnin', 1912-1982
• 24 Hooker, John Lee
• 20 Marshall F. Granros Collection
• 19 Muddy Waters, 1915-1983
• 14 Terry, Sonny
• 13 Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959
• 12 Washington, Dinah, 1924-1963
• 10 Broonzy, Big Bill, 1893-1958
• 10 Little Walter, 1930-1968
• 10 Memphis Slim
• 10 Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings
• 10 Witherspoon, Jimmy
• 9 Howlin' Wolf, 1910-1976
• 8 Crudup, Arthur, 1905-1974
• 8 McGhee, Brownie, 1915-1996
• 8 Williamson, Sonny Boy, -1965
• 7 Dixon, Willie, 1915-1992
• 7 Fulson, Lowell
• 7 Johnson, Lonnie, 1894-1970
• 7 Knowling, Ransom
• 7 Sykes, Roosevelt
• 7 Turner, Joe, 1911-1985
• 7 Williams, Robert Pete, 1914-1980
• 6 Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971

• 1 No linguistic content

• 23 United States
• 16 Chicago
• 16 Illinois
• 10 Louisiana
• 9 Texas
• 6 New Orleans
• 4 Detroit
• 4 Michigan
• 4 New York
• 4 New York (State)
• 3 California
• 2 Great Britain
• 2 Houston
• 2 Memphis
• 2 Southern States
• 2 Tennessee
• 1 Arkansas
• 1 Denmark
• 1 Hollywood
• 1 Los Angeles
• 1 Mississippi
• 1 South Carolina

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