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Click this link to browse the Monroe Library's books with the subject term "Sound recording industry--History."

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Click this link to browse the Monroe Library's books on the history of popular music.

Wavelength (the predecessor to Offbeat Magazine) was originally been a record review insert. Throughout its run from 1980-1991, Wavelength was dedicated to telling the life stories of the many unheralded New Orleans musicians who had influenced American popular music. It covered the range of New Orleans music -- jazz and gospel, rock and classical, but with an emphasis on rhythm and blues, highlighting the work of some of the city’s most talented writers, artists, and photographers including Jeff Hannusch, Bunny Matthews, Skip Bolen, Rick Olivier, Kalamu ya Salaam, Gene Scaramuzzo, Rick Coleman, Paula Burch, Al Kennedy and dozens of others. The

Collection of 78rpm records and cylinder recordings released in the early 20th century.

Compiled by Bill Adler, a noted journalist and founding VP of Publicity at Def Jam Recordings, the Adler archive contains thousands of newspaper and magazine articles, recording industry press releases and artist bios, correspondence, photographs, posters, flyers, advertising, and other documents.

Includes the Alan Lomax Archive, a priceless collection of recorded music, dance, and the spoken word.

Includes playbills, posters, photographs, and more from performances at the academy from its inception in 1861 to the present.

Created entirely by hand, well before widespread use of design software, these flyers preserve raw data from the days when Hip Hop was primarily a live, performance-based culture in the Bronx. They contain information about early Hip Hop groups, individual MCs and DJs, promoters, venues, dress codes, admission prices, shout outs and more. Celebrated designers, such as Buddy Esquire (“The Flyer King”) and Phase 2, made these flyers using magazine cutouts, original photographs, drawings, and dry-transfer letters.

A digital collection of over 10,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections at UC Santa Barbara.

The UCLA Music Library's Archive of Popular American Music is a research collection covering the history of popular music in the United States from 1790 to the present. The collection, fully accessible at the item level through the UCLA Library Orion2 catalog, is one of the largest in the country, numbering almost 450,000 pieces of sheet music, anthologies, and arrangements for band and orchestra. The collection also includes 62,500 recordings on disc, tape, and cylinder.

Provides access to digital images for over 3,000 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920.

This Monroe Library Research Guide has links to many video, audio, and image websites.

Catalogues the work in musicology of Alan and John Lomax with a digital repository of music as well as an interactive interface, giving you access to detailed analyses of folk music from all over the world, and highly technical “descriptive data” for each song.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more. Collections include the Live Music Archive, Grateful Dead collection, Old Time Radio collection, 78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings, String Cheese Incident collection, and more.

Digitized materials from Loyola University New Orleans’ Special Collections and Archives are available in the LOUISiana Digital Library. The LOUISiana Digital Library (LDL) is an online library of Louisiana institutions that provides over 144,000 digital materials.

The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.

The NOLA Hiphop Archive was founded by Holly Hobbs in 2012. To date, the NOLA Hiphop Archive has focused on the recording and collection of digital videotaped oral histories. The collection currently contains over 40 videotaped interviews with leading hiphop and bounce artists, with new interviews added on an ongoing basis.

This digital collection offers 2,091 images of punk flyers held by Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.

The Sheet Music Consortium provides tools and services that promote access to and use of online sheet music collections by scholars, students, and the general public.

UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. Includes, audio, video, text, visual art, and more.

Includes collections of blues photographs, posters, correspondence, and more.

This is a list of online digital musical document libraries. Each source listed offers access to collections of digitized music documents (typically originating from printed or manuscript musical sources), and containing music notation of some kind, stored as an image file.

The Amistad Research Center is committed to collecting, preserving, and providing open access to original materials that reference the social and cultural importance of America's ethnic and racial history, the African Diaspora, human relations, and civil rights. Collections include the NOLA Hiphop Archive.

The ARChive collects, preserves and provides information on the popular music of all cultures and races throughout the world from 1950 to the present.

At the AAAMC at Indiana University in Bloomington, you will find materials covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions primarily from the post-World War II era. Our collections highlight popular, religious, and classical music, with genres ranging from blues and gospel to R&B and contemporary hip hop. The AAAMC also houses extensive materials related to the documentation of black radio.

The Center for Popular Music makes available a wide variety of music and related materials for research and study. From original 18th-century tune books to digital files, the CPM's special collections contain all popular formats of music dissemination. Collections of music include Sheet Music, Song Broadsides, Rare Books and Scores, and Sound Recordings. The CPM also collects related materials that further enable the study of popular music, such as Photographs, Trade Catalogs, Posters, Playbills, and Programs, Periodicals, Vertical Files, and Manuscripts.

The Hogan Jazz Archive is the leading research center for the study of New Orleans jazz and related musical genres, including New Orleans ragtime, gospel, blues, rhythm and blues, and Creole songs. Among its holdings are 2,000 reels of oral history interviews with musicians, family members, and observers that document the stories surrounding the emergence of jazz in New Orleans from the late 19th century forward. Other holdings include sound recordings, film, photography, sheet music, personal papers, records of the American Federation of Musicians local 174-496, ephemera, and realia.

This database was compiled from the Jazz Fest Program Books and lists every performer at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival beginning in 1970. Over the years Stage names have changed and even Performers have altered the spelling of their names (Dixie Cups vs. Kups) . Please be mindful of these variations and make your search as simple as possible. Also note there are often last minute schedule changes and those changes from the pre-digital era may not be noted.

Loyola's Special Collections & Archives collections include materials related to individuals who have contributed to the performing arts in New Orleans; to individuals from the New Orleans area who have distinguished themselves in the performing arts nationally or internationally; and to performing arts organizations in the greater New Orleans area

Includes the Billy Rose Theatre Division, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, Music Division, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, and the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

The Popular Music and Culture Collection, within the Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives, collects and preserves unique and rare historical materials documenting twentieth-century American Popular Music and Culture. Highlights of the collection include Johnny Mercer and music of his era; early country, bluegrass and Southern gospel music in Georgia; and WSB and radio broadcasting in Georgia. Additionally, the collection contains more than 14,000 pieces of published sheet music, Tune-Dex cards, and arrangements by American songwriters, as well as 60,000 recordings from a variety of genres.

The Riot Grrrl Collection documents the evolution of the Riot Grrrl movement, particularly in the years between 1989 and 1996. Because Riot Grrrl was (and is) both a political and a cultural movement, its output was diverse, including writing, music, performance, film, activism, photography, video, and original art, as well as documentation of activism and performance. This research collection provides primary resources for scholars and others who are interested in feminism, punk activism, queer theory, gender theory, DIY culture, print history, and music history.

The Library and Archives in Cleveland, Ohio is the most comprehensive repository of materials relating to the history of rock and roll. Their mission is to collect, preserve, and provide access to these resources for scholars, educators, students, journalists, and the general public in order to broaden awareness and understanding of rock and roll, its roots, and its impact on our society.

Located in Memphis, TN, the Stax Museum collection includes videos, films, photographs, original instruments, and more commemorating Stax Records and the many soul and R&B artists who recorded there.