HIST 571 and FOLK 571: Southern Music
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International Index to Music Periodicals
Access to articles from over 430 international music periodicals.
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ABELL: American Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Find articles on English language literatures, linguistics, folklore, &cultural studies, including music.
Southern Cultures
Published quarterly by UNC's Center for the Study of the American South, Southern Cultures contains articles on all aspects of southern life.
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Primary Sources for Music and Music Research
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Southern Folklife Collection Recordings Database
Search part of the Southern Folklife Collection's 78rpm and 45rpm commercial recordings. Note that the majority of the Collection's 78s and 45s are not yet included in the database.
African American Song
Covering jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression, African American Song includes 50,000 tracks of music.
American Song
A history database of 50,000 songs from the American past.
Digital Library of Appalachia
Contains several thousand non-commercial recordings of the music of Appalachia providing a resource for study of repertoire, technique, lore, and the musical interchanges among the region's traditional musicians.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Includes more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural, and human-made sounds. Search by genre, artist, instrument, etc.
Documenting the American South
ibiblio.org's Music Collection
Links to many digital collections of southern music.
Library of Congress American Memory Music Collection
Browse these 33 collections containing sheet music and audio files from U.S. history.
The Flatt and Scruggs Preservation Society
Provides biographies, photos, songbooks, and discographies.
The Blues Archive at the University of Mississippi
Description of the collection and useful links.
Jazz Research Guide at the University of Rutgers
A list of research links for jazz research.
The B.B.King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center
Website for the museum in Indianola, Mississippi. Includes interviews and museum news.
The Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College
Site includes citation style guides, bibliographies, resources for teachers, and job information.
The William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz
This collection "collection includes oral histories, recorded music, photographs and film, and sheet music and orchestrations."
Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song: Correspondence, 1940-1950
Contains letters between Guthrie and the staff of the Archive of American Folk Song from the 1940s.
The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
Includes 700 sound recordings, fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month trip taken by the Lomaxes through the southern United States.
Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942
Recorded in conjunction with the Florida Federal Writers' Project, the Florida Music Project, and the Joint Committee on Folk Arts of the Work Projects Administration, this collection features folksongs and folktales in many languages.
The Lomax Legacy: Folklore in a Globalizing Century
A symposium sponsored by The American Folklife Center and The Association for Cultural Equity in 2006.
Association for Cultural Equity
A non-profit organization founded by Alan Lomax as a center for the exploration and preservation of the world's expressive traditions. The web site provides access to primary documents, many of which relate to the American South.
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues
UNC Press web site for Dr. Ferris's latest book. Includes photos and audio files.
XM Radio's B.B. King's Bluesville Channel
From the Delta, Chicago, New Orleans, and more: B.B. King's Bluesville covers more than 80 years of music, from roots to contemporary blues. Subscription required.
Course Syllabus
Reserve Readings
Record Review Assignment
How to Write a Record Review by J. Eric Smith
Examples of great record reviews and music writing
Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III. Review by Ryan Dombal.
Nas: Untitled Review by Ian Cohen.
Cee-Lo Green...Is the Soul Machine Review by Mark Anthony Neal.
Lacunae: Writer Douglas Wolk's mostly music focused blog. To see reviews he has written, look in the Things I've Published section on the left side of the page.
Sasha Frere-Jones's blog
Frere-Jones writes about music for the New Yorker, covering a lot of indie music. Links to his columns at the New Yorker and other publications are available on the right side of the blog.
Sources for current reviews
Pitchfork
Currently the most well-known online reviewers of indie music.
dusted
Independent music review site with a focus on more obscure or avant work than Pitchfork.
Arthur Magazine
The online home of Arthur Magazine, which is currently not being published in print.
Reference Sources
Oxford Music Online
Online access to Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
International Dictionary of Black Composers
The Encyclopedia of Country Music: The Ultimate Guide to the Music
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
American Folklore: An Encyclopedia
Film Resources
Folkstreams.net
A National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures. A number of Dr. Ferris's films are available here.
FilmFinder from the Media Resource Center in the Undergraduate Library.
Indie Music in North Carolina
Triangle Rock
Calendar for local clubs
NC Music History Dot Com
A blog related to the music of North Carolina during the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's.
Scan
The Indy Week music blog
alt.music.chapel-hill The Google Group for NC music information
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