Music reference and research materials:  an annotated bibliography  Reference 016.78 D835m 1988  1997

Sourcebook for research in music Reference 016.78 C883s 1993

The New Grove dictionary of American music  Reference  781.773 N532

The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians  Reference 780.3 G883 1994 

A directory of music collections in the Southeast United States  1994  Reference  026.78 D598 1994 

Folk music in America : a reference guide 1986  Reference  016.7817 M651f    

  Reference library of Black America  Reference  973.0496073 R3326 1997 vols. 4 & 5

Biographical dictionary of American music   Reference  780.92 C584b4 

Musical America. International directory of the performing arts  Reference 780.25 M987

Music - United States - History and criticism

Music -- United States -- 20th century -- History and criticism

Music and America and history

Music and United States and history

Black Music Research Journal   Indexed in MusicLiterature (through FirstSearch).

Clavier  Indexed in ERIC, Music index,  RILM abstracts (through FirstSearch).

Dance Magazine Full-text in Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac Web).  Indexed in Humanities Abstracts, (through FirstSearch), Readers'  Guide and Book Review Digest (through FirstSearch).

Down Beat  Full-text in Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac Web).  Indexed in the Readers' Guide and the RILM Abstracts (through FirstSearch).

Instrumentalist  Indexed in the RILM Abstracts (through FirstSearch).

Journal of Band Research  Indexed in the RILM Abstracts (through FirstSearch).

Journal of Music Theory  Indexed in the RILM Abstracts (through FirstSearch).

Journal of Research in Music Education  Indexed in the RILM Abstracts (through FirstSearch), Music Index  and ERIC.

Journal of Singing  Indexed in Music Index.

Music Educators Journal   Indexed in the RILM Abstracts (through FirstSearch) and ERIC.

Musical Quarterly  Indexed in the Music Index and in the RILM Abstracts (through FirstSearch).

Notes  Full-text in Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac Web).  Indexed in the Music Index and in the RILM Abstracts (through FirstSearch).

Opera News  Full-text in Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac Web).  Indexed in the Music Index, the RILM Abstracts (through FirstSearch) and the Readers' Guide.

Perspectives of New Music  Full-text in Expanded Academic ASAP (InfoTrac Web).  Indexed in the Music Index, the RILM Abstracts (through FirstSearch) and the Humanities Index.

Rolling Stone  Indexed in the Music Index, Book Review (through FirstSearch) and Readers' Guide.

Teaching Music  Indexed in ERIC. 

Expanded Academic ASAP on InfoTrac Web  (Keyword Search)  Music History

Lexis-Nexis Universe

JSTOR - Use History Journals

FirstSearch - RILM database

ERIC

Society for American Music http://american-music.org     
Good site specifically covering American music.  Scroll to bottom of page for link to American  Music Resources.

Internet resources from the University of Washington music library.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/music/resource.html
Excellent gateway site.

The Music Heritage Network Instrument Encyclopedia offers information concerning 140 instruments from the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments at Michigan.  http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/MHN/

The Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature combines electronic access to several databases.  http://www.music.indiana.edu/chmtl/

Musicals 101 is designed to "foster knowledge of musicals".  http://www.Musicals101.com/

Library of Congress' Music for the Nation:  American Sheet Music 1870-1885
 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/smhome.html
This site includes over 47,000 pieces of sheet music registered for copyright during the years1870 to 1885. Included are popular songs, piano music, sacred and secular choral music, solo instrumental music, method books and instructional materials, and music for band and orchestra.

Classical Net http://www.classical.net 
This site features reviews of more than 1500 CDs, as well as 5300 files and over 2600 links to a wide array of classical music sites.  Use the search engine to search under American.  Also, under Basic Repertoire go to Musical Periods.   Good site.

Duke University Music Library
http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/resources/classical_index.html Gateway site.
Or, go to http://www.lib.duke.edu/search/web.htm and search under American music.

The Red Hot Jazz Archive http://www.redhotjazz.com is a good site for  information, recordings, and biographies about early jazz. 

The Blue Flame Café http://www.blueflamecafe.com/pageone.html offers authoritative and well-written biographies of important African American blues singers and musicians.

Library of Congress' America Singing:  Nineteenth Century Songsheets 
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amsshtml/ 

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music  http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. 

The All-Music Guide http://www.allmusic.com covers recordings, song titles, biographies and reviews.  Excellent source.