10. United States and Canada
NOTE: These lists are intended to be representative only and to pique curiosity. These basic sources can help you narrow down a topic and find useful keyword search terms to try in Hollis and databases (Sections 2 and 3).
Selected online:
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online: United States and Canada (Volume 3)
Alan Lomax Database: A Virtual Archive
Blackgrooves: Archive of African American Music and Culture (Indiana University)
Bowling Green State University: Music Library and Sound Recordings Archive
One of the largest collections of recorded popular music in an academic library in the United States.
Center for Popular Music (Middle Tennessee State University)
Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (see pop groups)
MacEdward Leach and the Songs of Atlantic Canada (Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive): Songs and dance tunes from Newfoundland and Cape Breton.
Native American (University of Washington Libraries ethnomusicology portal)
Rap and Hip Hop Resources (Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, Chicago)
Wesleyan World Music Archives
For more historical online sources see Sheet Music and Multi-Media Resources (Online Resources for Music Scholars)
Selected audio:
Selected print:
American Musical Traditions
ed by Jeff Todd Titon and Bob Carlin
Location: Loeb Music Seeger Room ML3551 .A53 2002
American Roots Music
ed by Robert Santelli, Holly George-Warren, Jim Brown
Location: Widener Harvard Depository ML3551 .A54 2001
Blues People: Negro Music in White America
by LeRoi Jones
Location 1: Lamont ML3556 .B16 1980
Location 2: Loeb Music Mus177.906.25
Location 3: Quad Library ML3556 .B16 1980
Location 4: Widener WID-LC ML3556 .B16 1980
Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA
by
Reebee Garofalo
Location: Loeb Music ML3477 .G37 2008
