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Music Resources
Library of Congress
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Explore music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress.
Doctoral Disserations Musicology Online
From website: is an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.
Professional Organizations & Collections
American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
From website: ASCAP, an organization owned and run by its members, is the leading U.S. Performing Rights Organization representing over 435,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers.
From website: Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed.
From website: he Music Publishers Association is the oldest music trade organization in the United States, fostering communication among publishers, dealers, music educators, and all ultimate users of music.
University of North Texas Music Library Collection
A catalog of music materials at the University of North Texas.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
From website: The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts houses one of the worlds most extensive combination of circulating, reference, and rare archival collections in its field.
Indiana University Music Library
Catalog of music materials from Indiana University.
Music Collections in the Midwestern US
Please note this resource is very out of date, but still might be useful).
Yale University Music Library selection of music related links
A huge collection of music related links covering nearly every topic imaginable from Television Music to Pop Music and even scores.
Popular Music Studies
Special Issue of the Journal of Pan African Studies on Michael Jackson
A special issue of the peer reviewed journal devoted to Michael Jackson.
Scholarly Bibliography on Michael Jackson
Guide to Michael Jackson in the scholarly literature.
A useful guide to thousands of artists.
Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics & Thematic Essays
An archived guide to the Grateful Dead's lyrics and various scholarly essays.