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American Music
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Books about American Music
U.S. music history: ML 200-200.8 (in General Stacks)
American Memory Multimedia collections from the Library of Congress of digitized documents, photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures, and texts. Over 100 collections, including, for example, African-American pamphlets, Chautauqua flyers, Depression photographs, Coca-Cola advertising, and the papers of Alexander Graham Bell, to name just a few.
American Music CenterNational service and information center for new American music. Link to NewMusicBox, their monthly web magazine. Some services on the site require membership.
American Song Contains 50,000 tracks, including songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Also includes Civil Rights songs, songs of political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.
I Hear America Singing (Library of Congress)This site brings together thousands of materials digitized from the Library's vast collections of sheet music, sound recordings, moving images, manuscripts, photographs, and oral histories, along with essays by researchers in the performing arts. Special presentations feature collections such as patriotic songs, sheeet music, jazz, etc. More info
New Grove Dictionary of American Music
Ref ML 101 .U6 N48 1986
Encyclopedia covering all types of American music and musicians.
Society for American Music(formerly Sonneck Society) Links to Web resources on all types of American music.
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