African-American Jazz Musicians
in the Diaspora
On order
Century of American Popular Music:
2000 Best-Loved and Remembered Songs (1899-1999)
Reference ML128 .P63 J37 2002
Introducing American Folk Music
Book Stacks ML3551 .L67 1992
"Music of American Folk
Song" and Selected Other Writings
on American Folk Music
Book Stacks ML3551.1 .S44 2001
New Grove Dictionary of American
Music
Reference ML101 .U6 N48
Recorded Music in American life:
The Phonograph and Popular Memory, 1890-1945
On order
Three Centuries of American Music:
A Collection of American Sacred and Secular
Music
Reference M2.3 .U6 T47 v.1-12
Traditional American Folk Songs
Reference M1629.6 .A7 T7 1984
111 Greatest (Anglo-American) Folk Music Artists
An informed, but subjective list of 111 (plus more
honorable mentions) British and American folk
musicians. Each entry includes a link to a website
containing more information.
American
Memory
Brought to you by the Library of Congress,
this is a collection of digitized
documents, photographs and sound files
covering a variety of America music
(slave, depression, war) among other
history topics. Look under the
Collection Finder's Performing Arts
section or use the home page search
to gather information from all collections.
American Music Center
Focuses on contemporary American music
including a listening room and webzine
on new music.
American Music on the World Wide Web
A limited collection of links, but
they have been peer-reviewed by members
of the Society for American Music
before being added.
American
Musicological Society (AMS)
A huge site, with a focus on American
music, but the Web
sites of interest to musicologists
link provides extensive lists of links
under headings such as 'Women in Music',
'Jazz', 'Music in Latin America' as
well as practical matters such as
job vacancies, music libraries, and
publishers.
American Popular Culture: Music
A list of websites, online articles and a
bibliography to a variety of sources on popular
music in American culture.
American Roots Music
Website to accompany a 2001 series
on American music by PBS. Also see
the site for
Jazz:
A Film by Ken Burns on the PBS
site.
American Popular Music Before 1900
A very easy to use site from Kingwood
College Library, there are additional
sites for
1900-1950 and
1950-present
ARChive of Contemporary Music
A well-intentioned site, but difficult to read text
due to colored backgrounds. Some study guides on the
blues are available through the Keith Richards
collection. A project in process and not yet
available is a National Discography.
Experience Music Project
The interactive web site for the interactive
museum/exhibit space in Seattle, WA
for popular American music and musicians.
Folkstreams:
The Best of American Folklore Films
Documentaries and recordings of aspects of American
folk culture including music and musicians.
Honkytonks,
Hymns and the Blues
Presented on National Public Radio's
Morning Edition program during 2003,
this site offers text, sound files
and images of the music and musicians
from the early 1900's including recorded
interviews with performers.
InfoUSA: Music Overviews
Compiled by the US Department of
State to provide information on
American music by general views
and specific genres, as well as
resources and audio collections.
Internet Resources for Music, Theater
and Dance
Site list assembled by the Library
of Congress with an emphasis on music
in America.
Museum of Making Music
Located in the International Music Products
Association Headquarters in Carlsbad, CA. This
museum offers a timeline survey of American music
with many hands-on features.
National Endowment for the Arts: Music
Resources
Links to funding opportunities and
music organizations and associations.
Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame
Well-written biographies on the Hall of Fame
inductees, previous exhibitions, timeline and more
provide good starting information.
UCLA's
Digital Sheet Music Archive
A small collection, but the page "Other
Digital Sheet Music Collections"
is useful for finding more sheet music
images.
Video On Demand
A collection of performances, lectures, interviews,
and installations recorded at UCSD. These are free to
watch using RealPlayer. Use the video finder subject
divisions to look at the offering (advise using the
Arts & Music collection and then using the "by
subject" tab". A title/keyword search option is
available also. Of interest are the Jazz & Popular and
New Music sections.
General searching on the internet for
individual performers will retrieve lots
of hits, but use with caution. Some are
fan-create sites which may not provide proven
information based on fact and reliable research.
Here are some of the better sources.
American
Memory
Brought to you by the Library of Congress,
this is a collection of digitized
documents, photographs and sound files
covering a variety of America music
(slave, depression, war) and individual
performers among other topics. The
Collection Finder's Performing Arts
section has collections of specific
American composers such as Leonard
Bernstein.
Dmoz
Open Directory Project: Arts: Music:
People offers a collection of
links categorized by genre, instrument,
and more leading to a variety of pages,
use with care as not all are official
or show the source of the information
provided.
Individual Musicians (All Genres)
and Popular Groups
Assembled by Indiana University, this
covers a broad range of musical artists
NewMusicJukebox: Composer Directory
Information on composers and their
works, sometimes with audio clips
and links to websites.
New
Music Now
Limited collection of 'new' American
composers, but notable for the interviews
and background offered on the works
collected on this site.
US
Opera
A web page devoted to American opera
composers with links to biographies
on composers, information on their
operas, and scores.
