Music Web Links
• General Music Web Sites
• 20th Century American Music
Essentials of Music
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com
---provides a general overview of the six main periods in music history, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Twentieth Century, and includes historical themes, musical context, style, and biographies of composers.
Internet Public Library: Music History 102
http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist
---contains a brief history of music from the Middles Ages through the Twentieth Century using text, images, and links to further information on musical terms, periods, and composers.
American Cultural History: The Twentieth Century
http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decades.html
---provides a decade by decade overview of the cultural impact of music in the 20th century, highlighting popular trends, song writers, lyricists, performers, and songs.
PBS - Jazz: A Film By Ken Burns
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/index.htm
---accompanies the PBS production, Jazz, and includes a history from slavery to the present, a description of Jazz styles with sample audio clips, an overview of musical concepts relating to Jazz, and biographies of the men and women who defined Jazz.
PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Places Spaces & Changing Faces - Cotton Club
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/places/spaces_cotton_club.htm
Harold Arlen - Biography - The Cotton Club Years
http://www.haroldarlen.com/bio-4.html
Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra
http://www.redhotjazz.com/dukecco.html
The Red Hot Jazz Archive
http://www.redhotjazz.com
Jazz | All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com
NPR's Jazz Profiles
http://www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles
harlem.org
http://www.harlem.org/index.html
Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html
BBC NEWS| Special Report | Duke Ellington| The Centenary of a Jazz Legend
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/04/99/
duke_ellington/328962.stm
The Blues | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/theblues/index.html
---accompanies the PBS series, The Blues, and includes a history of the blues, biographies of blues musicians, a discography, video and audio clips, and a bibliography of print and electronic sources.
Year of the Blues 2003
http://www.yearoftheblues.com/index.asp
---commemorates 100 years of the blues and examines its place in music and cultural history through the use of feature articles, biographical information, art inspired by blues music, and audio clips.
American Masters - Muddy Waters | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/waters_m.html
---follows the career of electric blues guitarist, Muddy Waters, and includes a feature article, career timeline, video clips, and interview with the filmmaker of the PBS production.
The Official Muddy Waters Website
http://www.muddywaters.com/home.htm
---includes a biography of blues musician, Muddy Waters, along with photographs, video and audio clips, his discography, and a list of songs written by the artist.
American Masters - Ella Fitzgerald | PBS
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/fitzgerald_e_homepage.html ---follows the career of jazz singer, Ella Fitzgerald, and includes a feature article and career timeline.
KC: Paris of the Plains - Musical Kansas City
http://www.umkc.edu/lib/spec-col/parisoftheplains/webexhibit/page4.htm
---uses text, photographs, and images to describe the music scene in Kansas City from 1920 to 1940, including ragtime, jazz, blues, big band, swing, classical music, ballroom dancing, and theater.
Penn Special Collections – Marion Anderson: A Life in Song
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/anderson/index.html
---features an online exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library and contains letters, music scores, programs, photographs, interviews, sound recordings, and home movies celebrating the artistic development and musical career of renowned contralto Marian Anderson (1897-1993).