Arts & Humanities > Music > Folk and Appalachian
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Laurie MacKellar, Elizabethtown Community College
- American Folklife Center Online Collections
- This site contains links to several important online folk music collections, including Omaha Indian music, frontier fiddle tunes, Depression-era folk tunes, and more. Each collection contains a large number of sound recordings, plus text information about the subject, individual track information, photographs and other materials. Audio software such as RealAudio is required for playing sound files; information and download links are provided.
- Archive of Folk Culture Collections
- The Archive functions as a repository for American folk music collections. It includes over one million photographs, manuscripts, audio recordings, and moving images. The site contains general information about the collections, finding aids for individual collections, (including one for Kentucky recordings), and lists of publications. Many of the unpublished recordings may be ordered for private use or for research.
- Archives of Appalachia
- This site is searchable by keyword and browsable by subject. Click on the Browse by Subject link and click on Music to view listings of music-related materials available in the archives. The archives contain extensive collections of audio recordings, as well as oral histories, interviews and photographs. Detailed finding aids and bibliographies are included. Many materials, including audio recordings, are available for loan or duplication. Contact information is provided for each collection.
- Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music
- This site contains comprehensive lists of important websites pertaining to American, British, European and non-European traditional music. The links are organized by categories such as organizations, research centers, bibliographies, periodicals and online publications, recordings, labels and distributors, geographical headings and dance.
- Folk Music Index
- This index to recordings of tunes and songs from traditional and contemporary sources is searchable by performer or music title or browsable by subject. It also includes a publisher list.
- Old Time Music
- This site devoted to old-time music, provides news, information, a directory of musicians and related web-links.
- Traditional Ballad Index
- Search for folk ballads from the English-speaking world by title or keyword.
- Vintage Fiddlers Oral History Project
- This project, from the Kentuckiana Digital Library, provides mulitple collections of photos and recordings.
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Last Updated: Monday, 01-Jul-2002 15:54:57 EDT
