"Tim's Phonographs and Old Records." Tim Gracyk's Home Page.
[http://www.gracyk.com]
"Children, Art, and Music," in Childhood and Children; A
Compendium of Customs, Superstititions, Theories, Profiles, and Facts by Joan Bel
Geddes. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx, 1997. p. 354-399.
Music History Timeline: 20th Century 1801-1900
[http://members.tripod.com/~papandr/musicology/19timeline.htm]
Music History Timeline: 20th Century1900-1950
[http://members.tripod.com/~papandr/musicology/20timeline.htm]
Edison Sound
Recordings
[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edsndhm.html]
Includes instrumental, vocal, spoken word, spoken comedy, foreign language and ethnic,
religious, opera and concert recordings.
History in Song
[http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/history.html]
See topics such as immigrants, railroads, tramps, labor.
California
Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html]
The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that
includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a
variety of European ethnic and English- and Spanish-speaking communities in Northern
California, including folk music recorded in twelve languages representing numerous ethnic
groups and musicians.
Hispano Music
and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande
[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rghtml/rghome.html]
The Juan B. Rael Collection is an online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field
collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural
Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. Includes audio recordings, images,
correspondence, recording logs, song text transcriptions, and publications.
Historic
American Sheet Music
[http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/search.html]
Duke University Rare book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Seeger, Pete and Bob Reiser. Carry it On! A History in Song and
Pictures of America's Working Men and Women. New York: Simon & Schuster,
1985.
The chapters "Eight Hours" 1865-1900 and "Solidarity Forever"
1900-1918 contain the words and music of 24 songs including the Yiddish ballad "Mayn
Yingele" (My Little Boy), "Ballad of the Triangle Fire," "A Miner's
Life," "The Popular Wobbly" and "Solidarity Forever."
Southern Mosaic; The John
and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip
[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/]
700 sound recordings, as well as photographs and other text documenting a three-month,
6,502-mile trip through Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, South
Carolina, and Georgia collecting folksongs. These recordings represent a broad spectrum of
musical styles many of which would have been familiar to children earlier in the century:
ballads (e.g. "Influenza"), blues (e.g. "When I Was a Little Boy"),
children's songs (e.g. "La Pájara Pinta" in Spanish), cowboy songs, fiddle
tunes, field hollers, lullabies, play-party songs, religious dramas, spirituals and hymns
(e.g."Amazing Grace"), and work songs (e.g."Rock Island Line").
Hill, Joe. "The Preacher and the Slave" song reprinted in
The American Reader; Words That Moved a Nation ed. Diane Ravitch. New York:
Harper Perennial, 1990.
Colbert, David, ed. Eyewitness to America; 500 Years of America
in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen. New York: Pantheon, 1997.
Includes "The Birth of the Blues" by W. C. Handy and "Rhapsody in
Blue" by George Gershwin.
Doctorow, E. L. Ragtime. New York: Modern Library,
1997.
Also movie.
Madin, Mike. "The Jazz Age." Academic
Info: U.S. History - Modern America.
[http://www.academicinfo.net/usmod.html#jazz]
"It
Was Considered Low Music"
[http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/1758b-blake.html]
Pianist Eubie Blake on the birth of ragtime.
Interview with Doc Cheatham
[http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/scl/MULTIMED/JAZZHIST/jazzhist.html]
Jazz trumpet player documents his childhood, born 1905 in Nashville (TN)
Curtis, Lucious. "Times Is Gettin Harder"
from Mississippi River Blues Vol. 1, Matchbox label reissue. History Matters:
Many Pasts. [http://historymatters.gmu.edu/text/541d-times.html]
Blues of the Great Migration.
"W. C.
Handy." Pick of the Month, February 1997. Henry Ford Museum &
Greenfield Village.
[http://www.hfmgv.org/histories/pic/97.feb.html]
Read and hear about the birth and growth of the blues by searching the archive of
"This Day in History" for September 28 (scroll down or use "find in
page" to locate the keyword "Handy") at the Library of Congress.
Interview with Milt Hinton
[http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/scl/MULTIMED/JAZZHIST/jazzhist.html]
Double-bass player, born 1910, Vicksburg (MI)