History of American Song: Find Primary Sources

"Explore American history as documented in the work of some of our country's greatest composers, poets, scholars, and performers.".

The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge.

Filter your results by topics: Music & Musical Instruments, Popular Entertainment, Family & Social Life, Sound Recordings ...

A digital history of written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, oral history videos with transcripts, and sheet music that document the American experience.

A portal of online resources from libraries, universities, archives, and museums for access to our society's digitized cultural heritage.

This library contains over a hundred thousand digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Each item has its own permission.

The collections highlight popular, religious, and classical music, with genres ranging from blues and gospel to R&B and contemporary hip hop.

A digital collection of more than 10,000 cylinder recordings held by the UC Santa Barbara Library.

A library of music writing, some articles are "free".

Includes Artist & Performer Biographies, Hawaii Sheet Music Index, Hawaiian Songs: An Index of Published Songbooks, photos and videos related to the collection.

Life magazines from 1937 to 1972.