• 22 College Library
• 2 Verona Shelving Facility
• 1 Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Library
• 1 Memorial Library
• 1 Social Work Library (Franks)
• 1 Special Collections (Memorial Library)

• 2,090 Sound Recordings
• 246 Books
• 72 Music Scores
• 35 Videos, Slides, Films
• 9 Journals, Magazines, Newspapers

• 1,236 Compact Discs
• 638 Vinyl Records
• 19 DVDs
• 9 Cassette Tapes
• 5 VHS Videocassettes

• 415 Jazz
• 243 Popular music
• 196 History and criticism
• 109 African Americans
• 90 Jazz vocals
• 77 Rock music
• 71 Gospel music
• 68 Blues musicians
• 67 Folk music
• 66 Folk songs, English
• 63 Piano music (Blues)
• 62 Music
• 59 Rhythm and blues music
• 54 Country music
• 37 Instruction and study
• 34 Piano music (Jazz)
• 29 Guitar music (Blues)
• 24 Soul music
• 22 Women blues musicians
• 20 Ballads, English
• 20 Big band music
• 18 Old-time music
• 18 Spirituals (Songs)
• 17 African American musicians

• 167 Marshall F. Granros Collection
• 136 James McKinty Collection
• 109 Wisconsin Music Archives
• 77 Broonzy, Big Bill, 1893-1958
• 46 Leadbelly, 1885-1949
• 45 Terry, Sonny
• 43 Henderson, Fletcher, 1897-1952
• 40 Muddy Waters, 1915-1983
• 39 Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
• 39 Johnson, Lonnie, 1894-1970
• 37 Williams, Clarence, 1893-1965
• 36 Hooker, John Lee
• 36 Tampa Red, 1904-1981
• 34 Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
• 33 Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002
• 31 Hopkins, Lightnin', 1912-1982
• 29 Sykes, Roosevelt
• 29 White, Josh
• 28 Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959
• 28 Memphis Minnie, 1897-1973
• 28 Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937
• 26 Guy, Buddy
• 26 Knowling, Ransom
• 26 Spann, Otis, 1930-1970
• 25 Blind Blake

• 2,206 English
• 117 No linguistic content
• 83 Unknown
• 18 French
• 7 Spanish
• 4 German
• 3 Multiple languages
• 2 Creoles and Pidgins, French-based (Other)
• 2 Italian
• 2 Romance (Other)
• 1 Afrikaans
• 1 Bambara
• 1 Creek
• 1 Creoles and Pidgins, English-based (Other)
• 1 Dutch
• 1 Haitian
• 1 Mandingo
• 1 Niger-Kordofanian (Other)
• 1 North American Indian (Other)
• 1 Undetermined
• 1 Yiddish

• 197 United States
• 48 Chicago
• 48 Illinois
• 40 Mississippi
• 26 Louisiana
• 24 Southern States
• 24 Texas
• 18 Wisconsin
• 15 Tennessee
• 12 Memphis
• 10 New Orleans
• 8 Delta (Region)
• 6 Alabama
• 6 Georgia
• 5 Arkansas
• 5 Missouri
• 4 California
• 4 Kentucky
• 4 Louisville
• 4 Mali
• 4 Memphis (Tenn.)
• 4 New York (State)
• 4 North Carolina
• 4 Saint Louis
• 3 Appalachian Region, Southern

• 336 Blues (Music)
• 94 Sound recordings
• 88 Jazz
• 72 Music
• 68 Popular music
• 47 Rhythm and blues music
• 41 Discography
• 39 Biography
• 38 Live sound recordings
• 25 Songs and music
• 24 Folk music
• 21 Rock music
• 20 Interviews
• 20 Songs
• 18 Old-time music
• 16 Ragtime music
• 15 Alternate takes (Sound recordings)
• 15 Gospel music
• 14 Country music
• 14 Methods (Blues)
• 14 Texts
• 13 Soul music
• 11 Field recordings
• 11 Folk songs
• 11 Pictorial works

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