American Song

Description

American Song provides streaming audio for music from America's past. The growing database will become the definitive source for American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music, encompassing great American musical genres including country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing - combined with powerful recordings by artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Si Kahn, Lead Belly, Sleepy LaBeef, the New Lost City Ramblers, Otis Clay, Eddy "The Chief" Clearwater, Nanci Griffith, The Lilly Brothers, Merle Travis, and many others.  American Song will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.

American Song currently includes music from many labels, including Rounder Records, McNeil Music, Native Ground Music, Rebel Records, County Records, Smithsonian Folkways, and Document Records. New content is added on a regular basis and is highlighted on the home page.

Liner notes to all the albums are included (in PDF format) as well as static URLs to each track and album in the database

Dates Covered

18th century-1960

Print Counterpart

No print counterpart.

Related Databases

· Resources by Subject - Music
· DRAM

Access Notes

Off-Campus Access to Libraries resources requires a UBITName and password.

Contact

musique@buffalo.edu