World Wide Web Resources - Popular Music

Billboard.com Nielsen Business Media
The primary news site for the commercial music scene, with daily music news, weekly charts, new releases, and a review finder with original album reviews from 1970 through today.
Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip Library of Congress
From the Library of Congress American Memory Project, it includes a photo archive and nearly 700 songs they recorded available in MP3 format.
Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music Johns Hopkins University
Sheet music from 1780 to 1960. It includes images of music that are in the public domain.
American Memory - Music Library of Congress
A site that includes many different historic collections of sheet music, including African American Sheet Music, 1850-1920, Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1820-1860 and 1870-1855, and more.
American Music Resource American Music Resource
The collection houses over 800 bibliographies, lists and files, and is indexed by topic (genre and style subdivisions) and subject (individuals - mostly composers). Some listings also include links to selected Internet resources.
A Traditional Music Library Rod Smith
A collection of folk music, tune-books, songbooks, and sheet music. Includes childrens' songs, instructional materials, etc. All books and music are in the public domain.

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