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General
- International
Centre for Music Studies,
University of Newcastle.
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Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning: Music and Inclusivity
- Revised
New Grove Dictionary of Music.
- The British Library has some useful
resources:
- The International
Association for the Study of Popular Music
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Debate from IASPM
list on Popular Music Theory
- IASPM UK &
Ireland
- The Institute of
Popular Music, University of Liverpool. (The Robert Pring-Mill collection
of material related to Latin American Political Song is located at the
Institute.)
- Ethnomusicology Resources
on the Web. This is a site for ethnomusicological resources on the web
which includes francophone, Caribbean and Latin American links as well as
academic links to related organisations, institutions and
encyclopedias.
- The William
& Gayle Cook Music Library of Indiana University. This has many useful
links to world music and ethnomusicology pages including area-specific links
to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, the Caribbean (including Puerto Rico), France,
Latin America and Spain.
- Links to the Rough Guides
to reggae, world music and rock
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International Association of Sound
and Audiovisual Archives
- American Musicological Society.
The website for the world's largest musicological society, containing many
useful links and resources.
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Smithsonian Institute
Global Sounds Samples and downloads of indigenous and folk musics from
around the world. Supports musicians through receipt of royalties and
international recognition.
- Voxpop. A
site by Marc Lilienkamp that
looks at pop music in Germany, Spain and France from a primarily
socio-linguistic point of view (in German).
- Department of Languages,
Lakehead University, Canada A list of useful resources for students and
researchers on French, Québécois, Spanish and Latin American Musics
- Freemuse: Freedom of Musical
Expression
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European Music Office
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MUSIC
Non-profit
organisation promoting arts integration in the classroom
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Future of Music Coalition Not-for-profit collaboration between members of
the music, technology, public policy and intellectual property law
communities. The FMC seeks to educate the media, policymakers, and the public
about music / technology issues, while also bringing together diverse voices
in an effort to come up with creative solutions to some of the challenges in
this space. The FMC also aims to identify and promote innovative business
models that will help musicians and citizens to benefit from new technologies.
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Genealogy of pop/rock music, Reebee Garofalo's
graphic representation of the
history of US popular music from 1955-1978 that contains over 700
entries representing more than 30 styles of music.
- Band
biographies site, biographies for pop/rock artists, concert information
and links
- Artifact,
a free guide to the best of the Web for architecture, communications, media &
culture, design, fashion & beauty, music & the performing arts and visual
arts. It aims to be the UK Higher and Further Education first choice for
accessing quality online resources for teaching and learning in the arts and
creative industries. Each resource and web site in Artifact is selected by
subject specialists for its academic quality and subject relevance. (This site
has been selected for inclusion!)
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Vitaminic Digital music
site with clips of numerous World Music genres, Latin jazz, Italian metal,
pop, punk, reggae and rock, Spanish metal and indie, plus details of record
labels from all over the world.
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Centre for Political Song, Glasgow Caledonian University Library
Online Music
Journals
Afro-Caribbean
Latin America
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Latin American branch
of IASPM (includes online publication of
conference proceedings)
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LANIC
at the University of Texas. This includes links to general sites on Latin
America, the Andes and the Caribbean, as well as country-specific links for
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, Haiti and the U.S.A. (the New York Barrio and TexMex), plus links to
the websites of individual stars like Rubén Baldes and Willie Colón.
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Mundo Latino Links to artists pages, music websites, radio, TV,
distributors and MP3/midi sites
- Cultural Resources:
Music. This cultural resources page includes links to the websites for
individual singers such as Juan Luis Guerra, Víctor Jara and Silvio Rodríguez,
as well as flamenco and tuna from Spain, corridos from Mexico and Cuban
music.
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Latin American Music Center (Indiana University School of Music) Extensive
online resources
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Patria
Grande. This site has several musical links that can be reached through
links to countries and the excellent search engine provided.
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MTV latino
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Latin American metal portal
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Cancioneros Lyrics and discography of trovadores -
Rock Argentino Argentine rock site including encyclopedia, search engine,
audio clips and tabs -
El Portal del Tango
Tango site including biographies, discographies, cinema , dance, poetry,
dictionary and lyrics
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Buenos Aires Tango Includes articles, links, mp3s
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Llanera site includes lyrics, biographies and audio clips
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Paraguayan music (extensive audio clips)
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Andean dance and song
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The Music of
Brazil. Lots of useful links as well as information on Edson Gomes,
Olodum, Carlinhos Brown and Gilberto Gil
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Dicionário Cravo Albin da Música Popular Brasileira -
The Brasilian
Sound. Links by artists and subject as well as links on MPB and to
Afro-Brazilian sites
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Alta
Fidelidade. Brazilian music.
- Brazilian
Music Search. Search engine for Brazilian music sites
- Brazzil. On-line
magazine
- Nordesteweb. Music from the
North East of Brazil
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Brazilian Muse Brasilian scene in New York.
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Magazine of the Brazilian Ministry for Exterior Relations on música
popular brasileira
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Online encyclopaedia of Chilean Music
Covers last 80 or so years. More than 600 biographies of musicians, groups,
composers complete with discographies.
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Instituto
Moreira Salles Access to the IMS musical collections, including those of
the critic José Ramos Tinhorão
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Cliquemusic
Brazilian singers, groups and musical genres
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Ricardo
Schott’s blog has an almost daily discographic review (in Portuguese):
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Brazilian
Music Treasure Hunt blog (in Portuguese) with daily reviews/news:
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Idelber
Avelar’s blog (in Portuguese), weekly discographic reviews
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Florida International
University
Díaz Ayala Cuban and Latin American Popular Music Collection (Approx.
100,000 items)
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Timba the
latest salsa trend to emerge from Cuba
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Jan Fairley's personal web-pages
(bibliography and information about this prolific scholar)
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Juan Pablo González's personal
web-pages (bibliography, discography and information about one of Latin
America's leading popular musicologists)
Spain
France and
Francophone
Germany and
Germanophone
- Kraftwerk's
official website.
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Kraftwerk ring A
comprehensive list of websites dedicated to the kings of German electronica
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Mats's Kraftwerk page includes a comprehensive gallery of images.
- KLAUS KUHNKE
Archiv für populäre Musik - Non-profit archive (in German) of enormous
collection of records, music-related books and publications amassed by German
music broadcasters and catalogued over 4 years to 1989. Record collection
searchable by title ("Titel- und Hauptinterpretensuche"), author
("Urhebersuche"), artist ("Interprensuche"). Searches reveal cat. no., author,
title, date, etc.
- Deutsches
Musikinformationszentrum - miz-online, a German language website with
large database and information about music making in Germany
- GEMA German
performing rights Society
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Forschungszentrum populäre Musik Website for the
Research Centre in Popular Music, Alexander von Humboldt University,
Berlin.
- Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv:
Schallarchivee Archive of analog recordings from the Deutsches
Rundfunk
- Arbeitskreis Studium Populärer Musik
e.V. A site in German dedicated to the furthering of interdisciplinary
research into popular musics of all kind. By no means exclusively dedicated to
Germanophone musics.
Portugal
and Lusophone
- At-tamur.com A site dedicated to
traditional lusophone musics.
- 123som.com
A site with all manner of lusophone and non-lusophone musics - traditonal to
pop. Large site but avoidis the usual overemphasis on the Anglo-Saxon
'mainstream'.
- Mp
2000 Portuguese music on the net. Extensive links
page.
Italy
- Bielle
Mainly about singer-songwriters, an excellent and updated site, with
many links, in Italian only
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Franco Fabbri homepage
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Italian Prog Well
documented site in English on Italian progressive rock and related
genres, with full discographies and bibliography
China
Songs and Stories
and a Glossary of Phrases of the Hua Miao of South West China
Cui Jian official site of the
pioneering rock musician
Niubi Chinese
Music shop in association with Amazon
The Chinese
Music Monograph Series Published by the Chinese Music Society of
North America
Rock in China
(Chinese rock, punk, metal, electro and underground)
Chinese Music
Society of North America
CHIME - European
Foundation For Chinese Music Research
Film and TV
Music
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Art of Film Music Extensive internet research resources (East
Stroudsburg University)
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Selected Internet Sources in Film (UCLA)
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Film Music on the Web (UK)
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Philip Tagg homepage
Main
topics: musicology, semiotics, analysis, education, popular music, film
music, TV, signification, connotation, musemes
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Daniel Chandler's The 'Grammar' of Television and Film from
the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UK) This list includes some of the
most important conventions for conveying meaning through particular
camera and editing techniques (as well as some of the specialised
vocabulary of film production). Very little music information but
excellent film information about sound, camera techniques, lighting, and
other topics.
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Filmsound Site dedicated to the art and analyses of film sound
design including history, bibliography, sound clips and terminology
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SoundtrackNet / filmmusic.com
The source for information on
composers, recording companies, retailers, manufacturers, etc.
Searchable database,soundtrack reviews and even a list of release dates
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Film Music Magazine
Film
Music Magazine is a monthly trade publication for professionals in the
film and television music business, and includes news, feature articles,
investigative reporting, and an event calendar
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Film Score Monthly
Online
Magazine of Motion Picture and Television Music Appreciation
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Film Music Network Includes industry directory and trade publications
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Filmtracks Modern Soundtrack Reviews
Reviews of modern soundtracks, tributes
to past and present composers, auctions for rare soundtracks and
information for the serious collector
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MovieMusic.com
New movie
music news and rankings
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The Fascinating World of Film Music
Soundtrack albums and their music , and
the recording engineers that worked on them
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Film Music Directory
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The Internet Movie Database
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Classics from the silver screen An index of classical and opera
music used in the movies
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Bohemianopera Classical and Opera Music used in the movies
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Urdu/hindi film music
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Tamil film music portal
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Tellytunes
This theme finder database currently includes listings for 30 different
TV and Movie Theme websites on the net, that's a massive 5,800+ theme
listings, it also includes comprehensive list of sites devoted to TV and
cartoon themes and jingles.
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Looney Tunes Sound Source
Musicals
Games
music
- Games
sound is a site dedicated to academic studies of games audio
Please report any broken links to Vanessa Knights at
v.n.m.knights@ncl.ac.uk.
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