Reading Project

Contemporary Music Styles

  1. Click the following links for information about rock and roll:
    • AMG: Rock:  All Music Guide's explicit presentation of rock and roll with information archived in different folders/links such as Styles, Essays, Key Artists, and etc.
    •  The History of Rock 'n' Roll:  An extensive site that explores the roots of rock as well as the rock artists/industry from 1955 to 1964
  1. Click the following links for information about country music:
  1. Click the following links for information about jazz music:
  1. Click the following links for information about blues:
    • Blues:  A sophisticated site constructed by Dr. Raphael Schulte of the English Department, Fu-Jen University
    • AMG: Blues: All Music Guide's informative presentation of blues with information archived in different folders/links such as Styles, Essays, Key Artists, and etc.
  1. Click the following links for information about new age music:
  1. Click the following links for information about rap:
    •  AMG: Rap:  All Music Guide's insightful presentation of rap music with information archived in different folders/links such as Styles, Essays, Key Artists, and etc.
    •  What is hip hop?:  A directory providing links to some definition pages
  1. Click the following links for information about reggae:

Other Links

  • Red Hot Jazz Archive:  This archive has RealAudio files, essays, films, photos, and information on early Jazz artists (before 1930) such as Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman.
  • Bob Marley Music Experience: Audio for the Soul:  This site provides song clips for you to download.

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  • Infoseek.com:  Please use this search engine to search for music clips that you need for demonstration/illustration.  The search query below gives you an  example of how to search for music clips of New Age music: 
    • +music +"new age" +(mp3 or midi)
    To search for music clips of other types of music, simply change "new age" into the type of music you are studying.  (Please study how an intervening space should be left in your search query.)