Dr. Dan
Margolies ø Batten
Associate Professor of History, Virginia
Wesleyan College
Email: dmargolies@vwc.edu ø
phone:
757.455.5716 ø Office: Blocker 15
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Traditional Music Links
Have some
good links? Send them along! dmargolies@vwc.edu
James Duff, fiddler, Hazard,
"And I think when
they're playing good, clean, honest music--fiddling, banjo-picking,
guitar-playing, what have you--I think you're just as close to heaven on this
earth as you'll ever be if you've got the music in you."
-Wilson Douglas (1922-1999),
Clay County, WV fiddler
Old
Time Music
Essential
Archives and Collections of Old Time and Traditional Music
Archives for Secret Museum of
the Air with Citizen Kafka and Pat Conte
Archives of Traditional Music (Indiana
University)
Berea College
Appalachian Sound Archives
Blues
Archives (
Indiana University Archives of
Traditional Music
John & Ruby Lomax'
1939 recording trip
Library of Congress Recorded Sound
Reference Center
Music in the Digital Library of
Appalachia (incredible)
Music Library
and Sound Recording Archive (Bowling Green State Univ.)
Traditional Mountain
Gospel MP3s
Vintage Fiddlers
Oral History Project (Kentucky)
WPAQ
(essential
William Ransom Hogan
Archive of New Orleans Jazz
General
Sites on Traditional Music
Ahmet Baycu's Roots of American Fiddle Music
Anthology
of American Folk Music (the book)
Folklife Sourcebook: A
Directory of Folklife Resources in the United States
Lift Every
Voice: Music in American Life
(University of Virginia)
New Orleans Discography, 1920s
North American Traditions (fiddle)
Old Time Music
& Dance Community Website
Roots
of American Fiddle Music
Sugar in the Gourd (streaming old
time music)
That's My Rabbit, My
Dog Caught it: Traditional Southern Instrumental Styles (liner notes)
Sites
for Specific States
Appalachian String Band Festival
(Clifftop)
Blue Ridge Institute and Museum
California State Old Time
Fiddler's Association
Charlie Walden's Missouri Fiddling in
Cyberspace
Chicago Old Town School of Folk
Music
Morris
Family Old Time Music Festival (the classic film)
St. James Hotel Sessions,
Konxville, 1929-30
Wisconsin Folksongs
Collection, 1937-1946
Vintage Fiddlers
Oral History Project (Kentucky)
Old Time Music in Portland,
Oregon
Stavin' Chain playing guitar and singing the
ballad "Batson,"
Sites
for Specific Old Time Musicians
The
Site for the Great
Ok, not an old time
musician, but still great
Tommy Jarrell & Fred
Cockerham
Fiddle Tunes of the Frontier:
Henry Reed
Stanley Brothers (mostly a place to buy
cheapo discs)
That is me with Bill Monroe at the
Bluegrass
Minnesota Bluegrass and Old Time
Music
Blues
University
of Mississippi Libraries Blues Archive
Cajun Fiddler, Library of Congress Prints and
Photographs collection, LC-USZ61-2012
Cajun
Music Links
Clarence's
Baton Rouge Information & Cajun/Zydeco Music Guide
Cajun French Music Association
California. Nevada,
and Hawaii Cajun and Zydeco Bands (collection of links)
Louisiana Cajun and
Zydeco Musicians (many links)
Conjunto
Music
Border Cultures:
Conjunto Music
Conjunto Kingz de Flavio
Longoria
Conjunto Lyrics
(from Puro Conjunto)
Dave's Tex - Mex,
Tejano, Conjunto Accordion Forum
Guadelupe Cultural Arts Center
John Dyer Conjunto
Photographs
KEDA Radio Jalapeno (Conjunto station in San
Antonio streamed live)
Mission Trail's Conjunto Express
Roots of
Tejano and Conjunto Music
El Saxofón in Tejano and
Norteño Music
South Texas Conjunto Association
Universidad de Reyes Acordeones
(Reyes Fourm)
Norteño
and Mexican-American Music
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
Encuentro de Jaraneros de
California
Hispano Music &
Culture from the Northern Rio Grande
The John Donald Robb Field
Recordings (1944-1979)
Musica de la Frontera:
Archive of Mexican-American Music
Mexican-American
Music Traditions of Washington State
Yu-Mex Music (Yugoslavian
Mariachi bands)
Institutional
Sites
Center for Appalachian
Studies and Services (
Center for Black
Music Research (
The Center for Popular Music (
Center for Southern African-American
Music (
Center for Texas Music History (
Collections
Relating to the History of Country Music (
The Crooked Road (Southwest Virginia
Music)
East Tennessee State University
Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country
Hillbilly
Music: Source and Symbol (
Jerry
Lee Lewis Online Research Center
John
Edwards Memorial Foundation
John Quincy Wolf Folklore (Folksong)
Collection,
National Ragtime and Jazz Archive, (Southern
W. L. Eury Appalachian
Collection, (
Wade Ward, 1937, Library of Congress Prints
and Photographs Division, LOT 7414-D, no. N125
A
few instrument Sites
Banjo-L archives (newsgroup)
Chalino Sanchez (El
Campachalino.com)
Chalino Sanchez (El Pelavacas.com)
Compendium of 5 string banjo
tunings
Gourd Banjos: From Africa To The
Appalachians
Gourd Banjo music samples (via David
Hyatt's webpage)
Hardanger
Fiddle Association of America
The Instrument Encyclopedia
(with samples)
The Orpheon Foundation Museum of Historical
Musical Instruments
Paracho del Norte Custom Guitars and
Guitar Repair
Annotated
Checklist of
Violins Made Between 1800-1849
Other
Worthwhile Music sites
America Music Resources on
the Web
British Library,
National Sound Archive
Center for Traditional Music and
Dance
Cylinder Preservation and
Digitization Project
Dear Old Illinois: Traditional
Music of Downstate Illinois
Famous
fiddle tunes (a few of them anyway)
The Historic American Sheet
Music Project
Honky Tonks, Hymns, and the Blues
Lester L. Levy Collection of Sheet
Music
National Library of
Canada-Music Division
Online 78 Discographical Project
'Perfessor' Bill Edwards Ragtime Sheet
Music Covers and MIDI Files
Save Our Sounds: America's
Recorded Sound Heritage Project
Stanford University Archive of
Recorded Sound
Some
Random and Interesting World Music Sites
Archive of
Maori and Pacific Music
The Bamboo Origins
of Far Eastern Bridged Zithers
Center for Traditional Music and Dance
Digital archive of Finnish
Folk Tunes
Digital
archive of north Indian classical music
Discography of Tuvan, Mongolian,
and Siberian Music
English folk and
traditional music on the Internet A guide to resources
ETHNOMUSE:
multimedia digital archive of slovenian folk music and folk dance culture
Hula Halau in
Japan: A Case Study of Hula Schools in Tokyo
A Kiosk of
Information Related to Okinawan Music
Latin American Network
Information Center (Music links)
Music in the Afghan North, 1967-1972
Musique
traditionnelle de France
Root Hog or Die (the World’s MP3
sites)
Sarod.com
(Amjad Ali Khan)
South American Music
in Miami: Colombian, Venezuelan, and Peruvian Traditions
Traditional
Music of the Ethnic Minorities on the Philippine Islands
“Indian
street musician and child, at Hong Kong, China,” c. 1900 Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-118544
Magazines
and Articles on Traditional Music
The Mississippi Rag: The Voice of
Traditional Jazz and Ragtime
New World Records
(liner notes)
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Division, LC-USZ62-90925
Record
Labels and Sites selling traditional music
British Archive of Country Music
Fiddle Tunes.com (
Khazana: India Arts Online- Music
Recordings & Instruments
The always great Wade
Mainer
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