Explore the vast treasure trove of digitized primary resources on the performing arts in the United States held by the Library of Congress. Most of the collections in this master list focus on American music, theater, and dance.
Consists of over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years 1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra. In addition to the digital reproductions, this site also offers many themed articles and essays on American musc.
Black, Indigenous & People of Color (BIPOC) Resources
Series of online and in-person events organized by experts in the field and launched by the American Musicological Society in 2022 to spotlight the richness and diversity of America's musical traditions as the country approaches its 250th anniversary.
Combines reference sources, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies chronicling the history and culture of the African American experience through music. Constantly expanding to include blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
Full-text collection of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leading African-Americans from the earliest times to the present. Includes numerous music-related materials.
Documents the history of African American music in an online music listening service. Contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.
Digital access to a range of reference books, monographs, & primary sources, including manuscripts, speeches, court cases, quotations, advertisements, statistics, and other papers.
For over 100 years, Musical America Worldwide has been the voice and the source for in-depth news coverage of the performing arts industry, particularly in the United States,
