Inside the Encyclopedia:

The Overview Page provides an outline of each volume.

Select Browse to enter the Encyclopedia and view its contents. On this page you will view the full Table of Contents on the left portion of the screen, and an Index of all articles, images, and other Encyclopedia content on the right portion of the screen. We are continuously uploading new content. Please check back periodically for additions.

The content of LEGAM is compiled from the following sources, as indicated for each index entry:

[a] = Article
[!] = Oral History/Interview
[#] = Book Excerpt: From Africa to Afrocentric Innovations Some Call "Jazz"
[P] = Presentation/Display
[w] = Website Link
[@] = E-Mail/Chatroom News
[*] = Image(s)
[o] = Other

An Article is an entry that was written by one of our associated scholars and made available to us for the encyclopedia. An Oral History or Interview is primary source material transcribed or collected from the ongoing audio, video, and written documentation we have conducted for this project. The Book Excerpts are from Dr. Karlton E. Hester's "jazz" history publication From Africa to Afrocentric Innovations Some Call "Jazz," the structure of which LEGAM is based upon. We will include items from this book-set selectively. We are also collecting Website Links for material that is located on the internet outside of our site. If you would like to point us to some resourceful websites to include, please feel free to E-mail Us with the website title and complete URL, and we will take your submission into consideration. Also included in LEGAM are news and resources from E-Mails from our associates, as well as news from the upcoming Chatrooms to be hosted at www.aainnovators.com. Images are also part of the content and are categorized thematically within the Table of Contents, and also listed in a full Index of Images at the end of Volume 4.

Search Tips:

1) Basic Use

The frame on the left portion of the screen contains the full Table of Contents of the encyclopedia. The right portion of the screen contains the full Index of Entries (all Articles, Oral Histories, Images, etc. currently posted online). By selecting an item you are interested in on the LEFT, you are taken to the appropriate section of Index Entries on the RIGHT. To go back to the Table of Contents to begin your search, Click Here.

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Option i) If you are searching for information on a musician that is currently not included in the TOC or Index of Entries, you can search the Biography Archive or the Discography Archive.

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