Music

General

About Music - A BBC website including information on musicians with music clips, interviews and images. There is a section entitled Features which presents in-depth coverage of music, with Echoes of Africa, Paris In The 1920s, A History of Vinyl, The Reykjavik Underground and Reggae, and there is also a section entitled The Rock and Pop Years.

All Music.com - Information on all types of 'pop' musicians and musical styles, from rock-n-roll, to hip-hop, from country to gospel etc.

Art and Culture Network: Music - A cross-disciplinary gateway to the world of the contemporary arts. This link to the section on music covers the blues, jazz, country, folk, hip hop and rap, pop music, world music, experimental music and electronica.

Oxford Music Online - for registered users of the Richmond Public Library. Including The Oxford Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Grove Music Online.

World Music - An overview of all kinds of world music from the National Geographic.

African Music Encyclopedia - Articles about African music, lists of performers, bibliographies and information about the music, instruments and musicians of specific countries and regions of Africa.

Music and Dance of Africa - Links to resources on African music from the African Studies collections of Columbia University Libraries.

Classic Motown - Highlights artists from the Detroit-based Motown Records label. Includes artist profiles and a history timeline of Motown, along with current news and events.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum - 'The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honors the legendary performers, producers, songwriters, disc jockeys and others who have made rock and roll the force in our culture that it is'.

Hip Hop Websites

Links taken from New York University Libraries bibliography on Hip Hop studies.

Experience Music Project's Hip Hop Timeline - Features video interviews with hop pioneers DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and others; audio clips of music, photographs, and flyers.

Hip Hop Archive Project at Stanford University - This webpage is designed to bring together hip hop scholars and practitioners for the preservation of hip hop history (archival of materials) and to extend scholarly discussion and debate. The webpage will publish essays, and contains a list of conferences; hip hop courses being offered in universities; links to other hip hop websites; and an extensive bibliography (see appendix).

Davey D's Hip Hop Corner - History and commentary from Davey D., a hip hop journalist and scholar. The Hip Hop History section contains personal definitions of hip hop from three of its founding fathers: DJ Kool Herc, Afrikaa Bambaataa, and Grandmaster Flash.

Old School Party Flyers - An extensive collection of high-quality images of early hip hop party flyers, most of which were designed by Buddy Esquire and Phase 2, a well-known graffiti artist.

Wikipedia entry on "Graffiti" - This article contains links to many rap websites at the end of the article.

NPR website on Breakdancing - Contains articles, video clips, and NPR audio reports on breakdancing.