Music : American Music

Publishes articles on American composers, performers, publishers, institutions, events, and the music industry, as well as book and recording reviews, bibliographies, and discographies.

Begun in 1980, this journal includes articles about the philosophy, aesthetics, history, and criticism of black music.

An international, peer-reviewed journal.

Published since 1950, Sing Out! Magazine is a quarterly folk music journal and support site. Each issue includes traditional and contemporary folk songs, feature articles on the best of folk music and the artists who make it ... plus news, reviews and more!The Sing Out! Resource Center is a multimedia collection of folk music recordings, photos, books, periodicals (and much more) collected over the last 60+ years, available free to Basic and Sustaining members of Sing Out!

A repository of materials covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era.

This collection is a collaboration of resources between the Library of Congress and the WGBH Educational Foundation to preserve at-risk public media and provide a central web portal for access to unique programming.

Established in the Library of Congress Music Division in 1928, this is one of the largest archives of ethnographic materials from the United States and around the world.

Alan Lomax's massive archive of songs and interviews. "Alan Lomax recorded a staggering amount of folk music. He worked from the 1930s to the '90s, and traveled from the Deep South to the mountains of West Virginia, all the way to Europe, the Caribbean and Asia." Includes recordings of his father, John Lomax.

Next Level is an initiative of the U.S. Department of State, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Meridian International Center. Its mission is to use hip hop music, dance, and art to foster cross-cultural creative exchange in diverse communities. We work to promote understanding and conflict transformation in these audiences, and support the professional development of artists in those communities.

Since the 1960s, OHAM collects and preserves audio and video memoirs in the voices of major musical figures of our time.

"This Sounding Spirit pilot digital library features songbooks and hymnals published across the southern United States from 1850 to 1925. Spanning holdings from four partner archives, the digital library’s twenty-two books include words-only hymnals, gospel songbooks, spiritual collections, and shape-note tunebooks, demonstrating the wide variety of form, content, and presentation in southern vernacular sacred songbooks.

Includes music content we license or own.

Explores the history of country music in the United States, with a focus on its beginnings in marginalized communities and the gradual development of the Nashville establishment. Highly acclaimed.

PBS created this to accompany Ken Burns' film.