Comprehensive online resource devoted to research on world music. Features overviews of various regions with a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Images and audio files are included. A print version with CDs is available at Burling reference.
Extensive bibliography of sources of literature about music, fields of musical study, musicians, and instruments, as well as sources of scores and recordings.
Includes essays, biographies, chronologies, images, sheet music, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies to chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Musical genres represented are blues, civil rights songs, gospel, jazz, minstrelsy, rhythm & blues, slave songs, spirituals, and other forms of black American musical expression.
Gateway to music research and access point for full-text Oxford music reference publications, including Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
A resource that offers searchable access to recorded track information for over 2,300 Negro Spiritual settings performed by solo classical vocalists. The growing database is a selection from more than 90 years of historic and contemporary recordings produced on compact discs, long-playing (33 1/3 rpm) albums, 78 rpm records, 45 rpm discs and audio cassettes.
Focuses on classically trained American singers and composers of African descent and on the vocal music forms they influenced, especially opera and art songs–including Negro spirituals composed for concert performance. Created and maintained by Grinnell's Randye Jones.
Sourcebook for Research in Music, Third Edition by 
Ethnomusicology: a Very Short Introduction by 
The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music by 
Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History by 
