American Music Resource: bibliographies on the Web

A gopher site since 1993 but no longer available, the American Music 
Resource is now updated and appears on the World Wide Web. Please 
adjust or establish your pointers to:

http://www.uncg.edu/mus/courses/flmccart/amr/

AMR contains bibliographies, lists, Internet links and text-files 
covering all styles of American music and related issues. It is a 
growing collection of information intended to serve a wide variety of 
professionals, students and all others. The collection is indexed into 
topics (style, genre: currently 52) and by subjects (mostly composers:
currently 71) for a grand total of well over 100 specific areas. From 
one to over ten different types of mediagraphical files may be found 
for each. The entire collection contains 850+ files and over 600
selected URLs. The "Selected Annotated Netography" provides further 
external links and offers research and Internet assistance.

Topics include: American Music in general; African-American Music 
in general; Ethnic Musics in general; Hispanic Music; Native American 
Music; Women in Music; Blues; Classical (concert) Music (and avant 
garde); Comedy, Vaudeville, Burlesque; Composition - all styles; 
Country Music; Electroacoustic Music Literature; Film and TV Music; 
Folk Music; Gospel/Religious Music (black and white); Instruments 
and Ensembles; Jazz; Lyrics; Musical Theatre; Opera; Poly-Ethnic 
Musics; Popular Music in general; Postmodernism; Ragtime; Rhythm 
'n' Blues (also dance, disco, rap); Rock Music; Structure and Theory: 
Counterpoint; Form and Analysis; Notation and Terminology; 
Orchestration and Arranging; Post-tonal music theory; Rhythm; 
Serial and 12-tone; Set theory; Timbre; Tonal music theory. 
Technology and Science: Acoustics; Psychology of music, 
Psychoacoustics - speech and hearing, text to speech; Computers 
and Music; Computer Platform - MAC; Computer Platform - PCs; 
Digital Signal Processing; Electrical Engineering; MIDI; Music/
general Programming Languages; Recording Arts; Tuning and 
Temperament; Synthesizers and Samplers. and Music Copyright 
Information.

Subjects (mostly composers) include: Laurie Anderson; Milton 
Babbitt; Samuel Barber; John Becker; Irving Berlin; Leonard 
Bernstein; John Cage; Elliott Carter; Carlos Chavez; Aaron Copland; 
John Corigliano; Henry Cowell; Ruth Crawford; George Crumb; Emma 
Lou Diemer; "Duke" Ellington; Vivian Fine; Eleanor Everest Freer; 
George Gershwin; Peggy Glanville-Hicks; Louis-Moreau Gottschalk; 
Morton Gould; Woody and Arlo Guthrie; W. C. Handy; Howard Hanson; 
Lou Harrison; Roy Harris; Fletcher Henderson; Jerry Herman; 
Holland-Dozier-Holland; Charles Ives; Scott Joplin; John Kander 
and Fred Ebb; Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter); John and Alan Lomax; 
Alvin Lucier; Otto Luening; Colin McPhee; Mary Carr Moore; 
Meredith Monk; "Jelly Roll" Morton; Pauline Oliveros; Harry Partch; 
Russell Peck; Vincent Persichetti; Walter Piston; Cole Porter; 
Steve Reich; George Rochberg; Jimmie Rodgers; Richard Rodgers; 
Carl Ruggles; The Seeger family; Charles Seeger; Mike Seeger; 
Peggy Seeger; Pete Seeger; Sherwood Shaffer; Elie Siegmeister; 
Paul Simon; Nicolas Slonimsky; Julia Smith; Stephen Sondheim; 
John Philip Sousa; Virgil Thomson; Vladimir Ussachevsky; Edgard 
Varese; Heitor Villa-Lobos; "Fats" Waller; Robert Ward; and 
Stevie Wonder.

Frank McCarty, editor
flmccart@uncg.edu