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American
Music
General Resources
Allmusic:
this treasure hoard of music information
can be searched in several categories: artists/groups,
albums, songs, styles, and labels. Each
of the styles, from country to rap, has
a variety of subcategories. Thus, Jazz offers
a menu of Swing, Bop, Cool, Free Jazz, Fusion,
Hard Bop, Latin Jazz, Classic Jazz, and
Soul Jazz. Headnotes provide concise introductions
to styles and artists, and the album reviews
are interesting and well written.
American Music Resource: very complete in
its encyclopedic information, but the layout
looks rather dated (1996) and a number of
links are no longer working. An update has
been announced.
American
Music on the world wide web: dramatic,
popular, sacred, and classical music
History
Kingwood College Library Online - American Cultural History and Music
This chronologically arranged web page is
intended as an overview of American history
through its music.
American popular music before 1900
American popular music 1900-1950
American music 1950-present
American music in historical context: American
Cultural History of the the Twentieth Century.
American Music Archives dedicated to
preserving the traditional musics of the
United States through historical backdrops,
biographies, discographies, information
on recordings, photos, quick-time video,
and sound samples.
Music and education
Music Schools - listing of programs
throughout the United States
The American Music Conference - building music education and making
Sheet Music archives
Historic American Sheet Music page containing
rare books, manuscripts, and special collections
library Duke University
Library of Congress' American Memory website,
containing 22,000 downloadable vocal and
instrumental selections.
African Americans, sheet music 1850-1920
Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music,
1870-1885
America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song
Sheets
The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
is part of Special Collections at the Milton
S.Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins
University. It is comprised of popular American
music spanning the period 1780 to 1960.
The over 26,000 pieces of music in the Levy
Collection are indexed on this site, and
images of the cover and music are available
for pieces of music more than 75 years old.
Recordings
The American Folklife Center of the Library
of Congress’ American Memory contains
downloadable song texts, recordings and
relevant manuscripts. e.g.. Amazing Grace
Native American Music
WWW Virtual Library - American Indians:
Index of Native American Music Resources
on the Internet (general resources, individual
artists and bands, music sources, music
organisations, interviews and articles,
instruments)
Oyate Ta Olowan, Songs of the People is
a rare and authentic collection of Native
American music. This landmark series steps
off the beaten trail, traveling to far places
in order to introduce you to talented native
musicians in their homelands.
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