7. Selected Internet Sites & Audio
(Jump to Audio)
Internet
Evaluating Web Sites (Harvard College Libraries ): Guide to finding websites with credibility and authority.
Allmusic
Explore genres, fusion, worldbeat; not scholarly but good background material.
American Musicological Society: WWW Sites for Musicologists
Rock and Pop
ARChive of Contemporary Music
Not-for-profit archive, music library and research center located in New York City that collects, preserves and provides information on the popular music of all cultures and races throughout the world from 1950 to the present.
Archive of World Music (Loeb Music Library, Harvard)
Description and links to finding aids for archival collections in this world-famous repository; AWM also encompasses many commercial recordings of world music which can be found in Hollis (combine AWM with other keywords in your search).
Ethnomusicology, Folk Music and World Music (University of Washington library portal)
Global Music Archive (Music Library, Vanderbilt University): Multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas.
Google Scholar Beta
Download Harvard's LibX (Firefox extension) in order to access retrieved articles via our proxy server (ex: JSTOR articles via library subscription).
International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)
Jazz Research Guide (Harvard College Libraries)
Music Library Links of Interest (Stanford University): Pop section
Pop and Rock Music Subject Guide (MIT Libraries): Bibliographies and reference sources.
Rap and Hip Hop Resources (Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, Chicago): Excellent resource!
Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) "-Ographies": Current bibliographies, discographies, and film/videographies.
Traditions: Research Guide for Folkore and Folkloristics (Harvard College Libraries, see ethnomusicology)
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive: Collection strengths in nearly all geographical areas.
Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum (Wesleyan University Music Department)
World Music Archives (Wesleyan University)
Worldwide Internet Music Resources (Indiana University Library portal):
National, international and world music
More general music resources: Online Resources for Music Scholars
Audio
BBC Radio 3: World Music
Grammy Awards: Nominations list, see World Music
Internet Radio KEXP Seattle: Streaming world music, archive, live performances.
National Geographic World Music
Includes audio and video clips for many artists, regions and genres.
Naxos Music Library (Harvard Users)
Online collection of recorded music, including World/Folk, delivered via streaming audio. Naxos Music Library: Jazz: 23,000 additional tracks of music from the Fantasy jazz catalog. The collection spans the genres of jazz, blues, R&B, and more.
Smithsonian Global Sound (Harvard users)
Online collection of recorded sound, including folk, popular, and classical world music, speeches, and oral histories
