Ethnomusicology
-
American Folklife Center (Library of Congress)
Includes the Archive of Folk Culture, online collections, finding aids, internships, and more. Also provides links to ethnographic resources and the text of Folklife and Fieldwork: a Layman's Introduction to Field Techniques (1979, 2002).
-
American Music Resource
AMR provides reference information about all styles of music indigenous to the Western Hemisphere through bibliographies, lists, and files, which are indexed by topic and subject.
-
Archives of African-American Music and Culture (Indiana University)
The Archives of African American Music and Culture is a repository of materials covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. The collections highlight popular, religious, and classical music, with genres ranging from blues and gospel to R&B and contemporary hip hop.
-
Archive of World Music (Harvard University)
The Archive of World Music is a special collection of the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University. It is devoted to collecting commercial and field recordings of ethnic and folk musics, with a special emphasis on the musics of Asia andthe Middle East. It also has substantial holdings of Anglo-American ballads and songs.
-
British Forum for Ethnomusicology
The site for the British Forum for Ethnomusicology offers news of conferences, selected links and a guide to ethnomusicology in Britain and Ireland.
-
Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music Links (University of Washington)
This page provides a plethora of links to organizations, publications, record labels, and sites specific to various geographical regions.
-
Folk Music Index to Recordings
This site comprises an index to recordings of tunes and songs from traditional and contemporary sources, with an emphasis on old-time fiddle and banjo tunes. The index is browsable by title and performer, as well as being searchable by keyword.
-
Folk Music of Wisconsin (Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures--Madison, WI)
The research and recording efforts of ethnographer Sidney Robertson Cowell are used to present historical and biographical information about folk music traditions in Wisconsin.
-
Jewish Music Web Center
The Jewish Music WebCenter is an online forum for academic, organizational, and individual activities in Jewish music. Information is provided to encourage and support scholarship, enjoyment, creation and general knowledge of Jewish music. The site includes an extensive subject listing of web resources with selected annotations.
-
Society for Ethnomusicology: Current Bibliographies
The Society for Ethnomusicology provides this online collection of bilbliographies from its journal Ethnomusicology.
-
Yiddish Sheet Music From the Collections of Brown University Library
Online exhibit features color scans of sheet music covers. The site also includes related web links and bibliography of print resources.
-
Zemerl: Interactive Database of Jewish Song
Offers a searchable collection of lyrics, sound files, and other pertinent information. Also includes lists of online resources.