Ethnomusicology and World Music: Web Sites

"Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress."

An extensive list of links to performing artists and performing arts organizations.

From the University of Washington, includes an extensive guide to resources by region

A database of biographical and descriptive information on artists, composers, compositions, songs and songwriters representing a variety of music styles, including classical, reggae, rock, and folk. The database includes links to sound recordings, a music glossary, and surveys of music styles.

From the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress; includes lectures on ethnomusicology and ethnomusicology back to 2001.

An international database of bibliographic records of music dissertations completed or in progress.

Includes podcasts, video, and music of performers and music from various countries and regions that be downloaded and synced through iTunes U; click on iTunes U link.

A web site created by Profs. Carol Mueller and Tim Rommen at the University Pennsylvania, includes class oral history and "Community Through Music" projects.

A database of over 2,000 completed dissertations and dissertations in progress in the field of music, musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology and other related disciplines at institutions around the world.

From the Latin American Music Center at Indiana University.

Includes the collections of Alan Lomax, Robert Winslow Gordon and other significant collections of regional and ethnic music

From Indiana University

From Indiana University, a large ethnographic collection of popular, world music, spoken word recordings, and the Hoagy Carmichael collection.

A digital archive of ethnographic field video for use by scholars and instructors with significant contributions from Indiana University and the University of Michigan.

From the Vanderbilt Wilson Music Library, "the Global Music Archive is a multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas." The current primary collection contains music from East Africa and Uganda.

From the John and Alan Lomax collections, digital audio, musical performances, interviews, videos, radio shows, and photographs. Also includes teaching and reference resources.

A finding aid and digital archives of the collections at the Smithsonian.

A free public domain research library. Includes works of over 2,700 composers and a large collection of orchestral parts.

From the Library of Congress, "62,500 pieces of historical sheet music registered for copyright: more than 15,000 registered during the years 1820-1860 and more than 47,000 registered during the years 1870-1885."

Include Yiddish, Jewish, and American popular music, cantorial music, classical music, and ethnic music from 1797 through 2002, primarily published in the US, Latin America, Russia, and Europe.

Music and lyrics in the public domain

From the Sheet Music Consortium, includes links sheet music collections and digitization projects around the world.

From John Hopkins, a large collection of American popular music from the years 1780 to 1980. Strengths of the collection are nineteenth-century America popular music and music "spawned by military conflicts from the War of 1812 through World War I..."