http://www.ascap.com/ace/#disclaim
“ACE is a database of song titles licensed by ASCAP in the United States. For each title, you can find the names of the songwriters and the names, contact persons, addresses and, in most cases, phone numbers of publishers to contact if you want to use the work. For most of the titles, you’ll find some of the artists who have made a commercial recording.”–From the website
http://www.galeschools.com/hispanic_heritage/index.htm
Gale Cengage Learning, the Library of Congress Law Library, and the Census Bureau have all offered sites that provide information on Hispanic Heritage Month 2009, which is celebrated from September 15 to October 15 each year.
This is a fantastic site that “makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.”
The site is extremely well-organized and easy to search. Choose a topic from the subject list and find great information about everything ranging from scientists, countries of the world, history, and jazz to ethnic studies and literature.
http://globalmusicarchive.org/
According to the site, “[t]he 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.” Currently, only East African music is available, but you can read about plans for expanding the database. Users can search by region, language, instrument, etc. From Vanderbilt University.
This is a database of all types of awards and honors, from entertainment and business to science and beauty. Use the categories on the left to browse or search by keyword. Also includes a schedule of upcoming award events.
www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/newdeal/
For those interested in the New Deal programs of the 1930s, the Library of Congress has created this guide to selected library resources on the topic. Links are available to a number of digitized materials, including photographs, posters, sheet music, and much more. Users can browse the collection by LOC division, New Deal program name, or WPA program name.
http://www.dramatispersonaearchive.org/
This site was designed ”to be useful to researchers of theater, dance, music, French culture, and early modern history” and “serves also as a portal into the University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library’s Digital Collections, which includes scanned rare books, maps, newspapers, and journals in searchable format.”–From Website.
With over 15,000 profiles of jazz musicians and with news, articles, reviews, photos, and more, this is one of the leading resources on jazz on the web.
Thanks to Nita Dunn (Cordova) for passing along this site!
From the site: “A large traditional and folk music library of songbooks, tune-books, sheet-music, lyrics, midis, tablature, plus music reference, chord diagrams, scales and other music educational & academic reference materials.” So if you’re looking for sea shanties, nursery songs or just classic American folk music, this is the place to go.
http://lifehacker.com/software/technophilia/where-the-web-archives-are-292981.php
This is a great guide from Lifehacker that describes some of the best archival resources online. I suggest that you take a look at the original post, but some of the sites they mention include:
http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
This wiki, from the International Music Score Library Project, offers downloadable PDFs of music scores for free. Currently over 2800 works are included. Users can browse by composer, composer’s time period or genre, or search by keyword. Users can also access the site in seven other languages.
www.lib.iastate.edu/collections/eresourc/guides.html
The Iowa State University Library has created a collection of resource guides for online information for various topics.
Links are provided to pertinent websites, electronic journals, abstracts and indexes for the following topics:
Accounting; African American Studies; Agricultural Information & Studies; Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering; Agriculture; Agronomy (Plant/Soil Sciences); American Indian Studies; Animal Ecology, Fisheries and Wildlife; Animal Sciences; Anthropology and Archaeology; Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Art; Asian American Studies; Astronomy; Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology; Biological Sciences; Biotechnology; Chemistry; Classical Studies; Community and Regional Planning; Criminology; Diversity; Economics; Education; Engineering; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Foreign Languages and Literatures; General Humanities; General Science and Technology; General Social Sciences; Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology; Geology; Government Information; History; Horticulture; International Intergovernmental Organizations; Journalism and Mass Communication; Latino Studies; Legal Resources; Library Science; Linguistics; Literature; Materials Science; Mathematics; Medicine; Military Science; Music, Theater, and Dance; Philosophy; Physics; Plant Pathology; Political Science; Psychology; Religion; Sociology; Veterinary Medicine; Women’s Studies.
www.rockhall.com/hof/allinductees.asp
Since the new class was announced today, what better time to point out an old favorite? This is a link to the list of all previous inductees. Select one and get a biography and timeline of their career.
Are you fabulous? Can you talk Broadway and snap your wrist at the same time? Can you sing along with Julie Andrews? If not, you may want to consider spending a little time at ibdb.com. That’s the Internet Broadway Database, New York’s answer to IMBD. Here you can navigate through the history of musicals, in the very same manner that IMDB allows you to leapfrog around the world of cinema. Only its more fabulous. You can look up any performer and get a full performance history. Or, you can see how long a particular show ran and even how many times it has been performed. Look up a particular venue, and you’ll get a complete rundown of the place’s performance history. Pretty soon you’ll be talking circles around Nathan Lane himself. Now snap on that!
Gregg Newby,
History
Folkstreams is a nonprofit organization which aims to preserve hard-to-find documentaries on American folk life and roots cultures and to give the films new life by streaming them on their website. Visitors to the site can view any of almost 100 films, which are organized by title, subject, region, filmmaker, etc.
Happy Viewing!
