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Academic Search Complete (Provided by the Texas State Library's TEXSHARE program.) *
Full-text articles from scholarly publications.
African American Music Reference *
Contains comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression chronicling the rich history of this music through 1970.
African American Song *
An online music listening service documenting the history of African American music in various genres.
Classical Music Library *
Classical recordings for listening and learning in libraries.
Grove Dictionary of Music (Provided by the Greenberg Endowment) *
Articles on all aspects of music and its study. Includes New Grove Dictionary of Opera.
Smithsonian Global Sound *
Archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.