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African American

General Sources

bulletDocumenting the South in the 19th Century
bulletAfrican American Music Research Guides from Indiana University Library

Blues

bulletTHE BLUES LEGENDS HOME PAGE
bulletThe Blue Highway |History of the Blues
bulletBluesworld

Gospel

bulletBlack Gospel

Jazz

bulletJazz Roots
bulletRed Hot Jazz Archive

Ballads

bulletBallad Index
bullet16th Century Ballads
bulletEarly Child Ballads

Banjo

bulletBanjo Newsletter
bullet5-String Banjo Site
bulletBanjo Hangout Instruction

Bluegrass

bulletThe Bluegrass Connection
bulletibluegrass
bulletBill Monroe Foundation
bulletBluegrass from Roughstock
bullet Barb Diederich's Handy Bluegrass Links | Bluegrass Lyrics
bullet Colorado Bluegrass Music Society
bulletMandolin Cafe
bulletWelcome to Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine
bullet C. F. Martin and Company
bullet Turtle Creek Bluegrass Band | Big Hollow Bluegrass Band  

African American |Ballads |Banjo | Blues | Bluegrass | Cajun and Zydeco | Celtic | Cowboy | Country (Roots) | Digital Atlas | Festivals | Fiddle | Folk | Guitar | General | Native American | Harmonica | Hispanic | Instruction/Instruments/Recordings | Klezmer | Old Time | Polka | Sacred | Western Swing | World |

Cajun and Zydeco

bulletCajun Music
bulletCajun French Music Association

Celtic

bulletCeltic Fiddle
bulletIrish Music Box
bulletEric Foxley Celtic Tunes
bulletFlutes & Pennywhistle
bulletColcannon Irish Band

Cowboy

bulletAmerica's West - Development
bulletCowboy Music
bulletCowboy Poets on the Internet

Country (Roots)

bullet Roots Collection

Festivals

bulletGalax, Virginia Old Time Music
bulletWalnut Valley National Flatpicking Winfield, Kansas | Audio Site
bulletWeiser, Idaho National Fiddle Contest
bullet Big Horn Festival in Buffalo, WY

Fiddle

bulletRoots of American Fiddle Music
bulletFiddler Magazine
bulletMissouri Fiddle Charlie Walden
bulletCeltic Fiddle
bulletCoelas Fiddler's Comapanion. Fiddle TuneEncylcopedia by Andrew Kuntz
bulletHardanger Fiddle
bullet Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier Henry Reed Collection from Library of Congress American Folklife Center.Transcriptions and sound files.
bulletWyoming Old Time Fiddle Association

Folk

bulletBallad Index
bullet Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and  America
bullet Traditional Music Library
bulletLloyd Shaw Dance Archive
bulletTrad Music Magazine

African American |Ballads |Banjo | Blues | Bluegrass | Cajun and Zydeco | Celtic | Cowboy | Country (Roots) | Digital Atlas | Festivals | Fiddle | Folk | Guitar | General | Native American | Harmonica | Hispanic | Instruction/Instruments/Recordings | Klezmer | Old Time | Polka | Sacred | Western Swing | World |

General

bulletAmerican Studies Web
bulletSouthern Folklife Collection
bulletAmerican Folklife Center
bulletRoots World On-line Magazine
bullet Society for Ethnomusicology
bullet Institute for Study of American Music

Guitar

bulletFret.com Site for all acoustic stringed instruments.
bulletHarmony Central Guitar Lessons
bulletOLGA Online Guitar Archive
bulletBluegrass Guitar

Harmonica

bulletHarmonica Page

Native American

bulletNative Americans, Prehistory, and Yellowstone

Hispanic

bulletMingo Saldivar
bulletTexas Folklife Resources 
bullet Tejano Music History
bullet What is Mariachi?
bullet Miguel Martinez article
bullet Chicana/Chicano Experience in Arizona 

Instruction/Instruments/Recordings

bulletCounty Sales
bulletElderly Instruments
bulletHomespun Tapes
bulletMel Bay
bulletRounder Records
bulletSmithsonian Folkways Recordings
bulletSwing Cat Swing Fiddle
bulletMulticultural Media Source for World Music and Teaching Materials
bulletWashtub Bass
bulletEZ Folk Instruction

African American |Ballads |Banjo | Blues | Bluegrass | Cajun and Zydeco | Celtic | Cowboy | Country (Roots) | Digital Atlas | Festivals | Fiddle | Folk | Guitar | General | Native American | Harmonica | Hispanic | Instruction/Instruments/Recordings | Klezmer | Old Time | Polka | Sacred | Western Swing | World |

Klezmer

bulletKlezmer
bulletKlezmer Shack
bulletGuide to Klezmer Articles on net

Old Time

bulletRootsWorld
bulletDavid Lynch Old Time Page
bulletOld Time Herald

Polka

bulletNancy's Polka Page

Sacred

bulletSacred Harp Shape note singing
bulletFaSoLa Page

Western Swing

bullet Western Swing History and Recordings
bulletLight Crust Dougboys
bulletWestern Swing from Roughstock
bulletBob Wills  

World

bulletWorld Music Central
bulletCarousel World Instruments

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