elcome to the website for the Resources of  American Music History 2. Resources of American Music History: A Directory of Source Materials from Colonial Times to World War II, compiled by D.W. Krummel, Jean Geil, Doris J. Dyen, and Deane L. Root (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1981), was the first major reference work to provide access to the primary materials of American music history, and thus quickly became a major reference tool for American music studies, but it was prepared in the era just prior to computer-based access to repositories’ historical collections and Internet communications.  April 26-28, 2009, we will be hosting a meeting in Pittsburgh, funded by a grant from the IMLS, to bring together librarians, archivists, and scholars to collaboratively develop RAMH2, a digital and sustainable reference tool for locating source materials in American music history... Read more

 

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