Music: By Subject Subject Guide

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 Center

National service and information center for new American music. Link to NewMusicBox, their monthly web magazine. Some services on the site require membership.

American Song 

More than 100,000 tracks of streaming audio, including songs by and about African Americans, American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Includes songs of the Civil Rights movement, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. Note: Content from the former African American Song database is now in American Song.

New Grove Dictionary of American Music

Ref ML 101 .U6 N48 1986
Encyclopedia covering all types of American music and musicians.

Performing Arts Encyclopedia (Library of Congress)

A guide to the performing arts collections and exhibitions at the Library of Congress, including music, dance, and theater. Includes digital collections accessible through the site.

Society for American Music

(formerly Sonneck Society) Links to Web resources on all types of American music.

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