Music: Popular Music

Site maintained by Billboard contains charts, samples, videos, news, reviews and listing of events.

Reviews of new black music releases hosted by the Indiana University Archives of African American Music and Culture.

Provides valuable links to blues societies, festivals, internet radio, instruments, artists and annotated discographies. Commercial links include 78 RPM seller services and recent CD releases.

Based at Columbia College, Chicago, the CBMR provides comprehensive definitions of styles and genres which are part of the black music experience internationally. Valuable bibliographies with some audio examples.

An archive and research center concerned with works from before the Revolutionary War to the present, located at Middle Tennessee State University.

A literally fantastic list of jazz and blues resources from the University of Chicago

Recorded interviews with pop musicians between 1950 and the 1980's. Made available by the Library of Congress.

Online resource for information about the Louis Armstrong house, and the archival collection it contains.

Updated version of the Penguin publication, with constant additions. Site is now titled "Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular Music."

Search under "Resources" for valuable guides for each inductee, recording studios and specific topics.

A wonderful compendium of factual materials, searchable by year, composer, soloist, and title. Maintained by Indiana University.