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Campfire Sing-Along

http://www.achilles.net/~cco/dir-cam.htm

Forgotten the lyrics to "Home on the Range" or "Pack up Your Troubles?" This is the place to go, with lyrics to lots of old favorites.

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Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Folk

Keywords: Campfire Songs

creativefolk.com

http://creativefolk.com/

A site combining information about folk music and women. Look here for resources related to women, women studies, women's folk music, and music about women and their lives. Also includes general folk music resources. 

Author: Gerri Gribi (gerri@creativefolk.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Folk

Social Sciences--Gender & Sexuality--Women

Digital Tradition Folk Song Database

http://pubweb.parc.xerox.com/digitrad

A searchable database "containing the words and music to thousands of folk songs." Each entry has the lyrics, some also have the music and an .au file of the melody. Titles or full text can be searched.

Author: The Digital Tradition

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Folk

Keywords: Lyrics

The Folk File

http://www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/~spencer/FF/

A dictionary of terminology from the world of folk music, including entries for folk artists. Browsable alphabetically.

Author: Bill Markwick (BD628@torfree.net)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Folk

Keywords: Dictionary; Biography

FolkBook: An Online Acoustic Music Establishment

http://www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/folkbook/folkbook.html

Information on folk and other acoustic music. The People and Places section contains biographies, discographies, lyrics and tablature, and tour schedules.

Author: Stephen Spencer (sspencer@netconcepts.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Folk

Keywords: Discography; Biography; Artists; Tablature

Hispano Music and Culture from the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rghtml/rghome.html

"Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographicfield collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. In 1940, Juan Bautista Rael of Stanford University, a native of Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico, used disc recording equipment supplied by the Archive of American Folk Song (now the Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center) to document alabados (hymns), folk drama, wedding songs, and dance tunes. The recordings included in the Archive of Folk Culture collection were made in Alamosa, Manassa, and Antonito, Colorado, and in Cerro and Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico. In addition to these recordings, the collection includes manuscript materials and publications authored by Rael which provide insight into the rich musical heritage and cultural traditions of this region."

Author: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress (folklife@loc.gov)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Folk

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Latin

Social Sciences--Ethnicity, Culture, and Race--Latin American/Hispanic

Keywords: Hispanic

Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html

"Covering a three-month period in 1939, the John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip documents a wide variety of musical styles from eight different states." This online presentation provides access to over 600 audio recordings of folksongs, related photos and other graphic images, as well as transcribed, searchable text for all the print material in the Lomax collection.

Author: The American Folklife Center

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Music--Genres--Folk

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Music

Arts & Humanities--History--North America--United States

Keywords: folk music; American South

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