Popular music and P Guide - Resources and Review

Information about the Velvet Underground, a group established during the 1960s and 70s. Includes a discography, a bibliography, full text articles and interviews, photographs, and details of bootlegs, films, videos, rehearsals, and live performances. Also gives news of reunion CDs and tours.
 
Index to thousands of current digital music resources, mainly in MP3 format, searchable and browsable by artist, letter or genre.
 
Latest music news and reviews plus a gig guide, quizzes, competitions, awards, chat, and a database of over 16,000 Q reviews.
 
An experimental demonstration of sheet music images and their bibliographic description for songs such as Beale Street Blues, I'll See You in Cuba and June Bugs Dance.
 
Collection of resources: the Anthology companion Web sites by ABC and Capitol Records, the Life magazine special edition, memorabilia sites, newsgroups, discographies, book reviews, and about 40 more sites for both reminiscing and reading about their current project.
 
Compendium of information relating to disco artists, DJs, producers, labels, and clubs. Also offers a disco radio station which requires RealPlayer.
 
An automated catalogue of numerous mailing lists relevant to music, with descriptions and subscription details.
 
Resources describing the 1960s and 1970s invasion of British music throughout the world. Includes information about the Beatles, the Kinks, the Who, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, the Animals and the Hollies. Also features a Beatles tour map, information about musical influences, and items on '60s fashion.
 
Index of sites relatings to a wide range of musicians and bands. Includes lyric archives, links to mailings lists, and links to digitised versions of songs. Indexed alphabetically, by genre and by resource type.
 
Collection of free high
quality music in MP3 format, as well as spoken word, and audiobooks. Genres covered include blues, classical, country, folk, dance, electronic, experimental, hip hop, rap, jazz, swing, pop, reggae, ska, punk, rock, and heavy metal. MP3 is a file format which stores audio files on computer so that the file size is relatively small but the sound quality is near perfect. Typically 1 Mb is equal to one minute of music.
 
Organisation established to promote inquiry, scholarship and analysis in the area of popular music, through conferences, publications and research projects. Offers online journals, bibliographies and related links.
 
Offers features about rave, house and techno music plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources compiled by a subject specialist, a subject
specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events.
 
Searchable and browsable listings of Bob Dylan's songs and albums. Lyrics are available for most songs, which are all available in RealAudio format. There is also a selection of live performances.
 
Offers original articles and features about country music, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject
specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Includes male and female artists and country music in MIDI format.
 
Large CD database holding details of artists, titles and tracks. Searches can be conducted by entering a song, artist or album, which return discographies and full track listings.
 
Geographical index to individual artists, and organisations associated with them.
 
Information on musicians, equipment, techniques, news and reviews for music makers.
 
Guide to music artists, including information on albums, songs, publishing, and biographical information. Searchable by name, album, song, style and label, it encompasses a wide range of musical styles, including rock, country, reggae and folk. Also includes recent music related news.
 
Offers original articles and features about dance music, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources compiled by a subject specialist, a subject
specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Includes links to artists.
 
Presents information on the life and works of Bo Diddley, credited as one of the founding fathers of rock 'n' roll music. Notes milestones in his career, provides a discography, lists TV and radio guest appearances, and identifies musicians who have played in Diddley's band from the 1940s to the present day.
 
Database of composer bibliographies and other information, indexed by topic or subject. Includes headings such as Gospel music, musical theatre, ragtime, Charles Ives, Scott Joplin, John and Alan Lomax and Stephen Sondheim.
 
Index to thousands of CD
quality sound clips, stored in MP3 format, searchable by track title or artist name. MP3 is becoming a standard method for compressing audio files for Internet retrieval. Its high compression, high quality capabilities typically produce files less than 10% of the size of .wav files.
 
Offers original articles and features about music from the 1980s, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources compiled by a subject specialist, a subject
specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Includes links to artists and lyrics.
 
Directory of information examining the British music era commonly referred to as the beat boom. Features information about artists and groups arranged alphabetically, weekly British chart hits of the time, the annual poll results from the Mersey Beat newspaper, and a listing of former musicians' current occupations.
 
Offers features about ska music and its Jamaican origins, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources compiled by a subject specialist, a subject
specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Includes links to ska bands.
 
Includes a gig guide and an artist browser with the current status, samples, and news on more than 100 European music artists.
 
Features include music room, real audio, and movie of the month.
 
Resource about the teaching and information unit dedicated to the study of popular music, which offers courses and research opportunities.
 
Series of links to information about ska such as FAQs, information about bands, regional resources, and magazines.
 
Selected links to resources on jazz and popular music.
 
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