Archives of African American Music and Culture
The Archives of African American Music and Culture is a repository of materials covering various musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era.
The Blues Archive at the University of Mississippi
The Blues Archive at the University of Mississippi acquires and conserves blues and blues-related materials in a variety of formats for scholars of the blues, African American studies, and southern culture. With over 50,000 sound recordings, in most audio formats; over 15,000 photographs; more than 350 videotapes; over 3,000 books, periodicals and newsletters; and numerous manuscripts and ephemera, the Blues Archive houses one of the largest collections of blues recordings, publications, and memorabilia in the world.
Center for Black Music Research (CBMR)
The Center for Black Music Research (CBMR), a research unit of Columbia College Chicago devoted to research, preservation, and dissemination of information about the history of black music on a global scale.
Chicago Blues Archives
Begun in 1981 with a generous gift from Chicago radio station WXRT, the Archives collects audio and visual recordings, promotional materials, artifacts, and other available blues related material. Of particular interest is CBA's collection of demo and live recordings not commercially available and the extensive collection of material from the Chicago Blues Festivals including audio and video recordings of Festival performances.
Contemporary Cajun, Creole, and Zydeco Musicians
This section of Louisiana State University at Eunice's web site offers a still-growing collection of web pages featuring photographs with some introductory notes about contemporary Cajun, Creole, and Zydeco musicians and musical groups from Southwest Louisiana. The idea for this project emerged in summer 1999 as a way of letting everyone know about the vibrant, culturally diverse music that is native to this part of the state. Since Louisiana State University at Eunice is located in a town in the heart of this region and since Eunice is the home of the Liberty Theater, where great Cajun, Creole, and Zydeco music is performed live every Saturday night, it seemed natural that LSUE should cover this unique part of Acadiana's culture on its web site.
Inventory of the Timothy Duffy Collection, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Timothy Duffy collection includes chiefly sound recordings, but there are also artist files, CD liner proofs, correspondence, photographs, posters, documentation, video recordings, DVDs, and miscellaneous items. Most of the material relates to Duffy's work with MMRF. Sound recordings include Duffy's folklore thesis fieldwork in the Black Mountains of North Carolina and recordings of blues, gospel, and R&B artists such as Walt Davis, Ray Greene, Jeeter Riddle, James Guitar Slim Stephens, Etta Baker, Willa Mae Buckner, Guitar Gabriel, Cool John Ferguson, Cootie Stark, Cora Mae Bryant, Sammy Mayfield, Neal Pattman, Beverly Guitar Watkins, Jerry McCain, Essie Mae Brooks, Precious Bryant, Preston Fulp, Macavine Hayes, Algia Mae Hinton, John Dee Holeman, Captain Luke Mayer Luther, Taj Mahal, and the Greene Acres Picking Party. Some of the sound recordings include interviews with artists.
Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip is a multi-format ethnographic field collection which includes nearly 700 sound recordings (102 of which are performed in Spanish), fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502 mile trip through the Southern United States collecting folksongs.
Do you miss an important site? Anything wrong?
Is there any broken link? Please email us!