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Important On-Line Folk Song Collections:
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North American Focused Collections:
- American Folk Song Collection (previously Holy Names University)
- Florida Folk Life Collection (State Library & Archives of Florida)
- Robert Winslow Gordon Collection (Library of Congress)
- Max Hunter Collection (Missouri State University)
- Alan Lomax Collection (Library of Congress)
- John & Roby Lomax Collection: 1939 Southern Mosaic (Library of Congress)
- John Donald Robb Field Recordings (University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research)
- Harry Smith Archive (Ethnographic Collector for Smithsonian Folkways)
- Southern Folklife Collection (University of North Carolina)
- Traditional Ballad Index (California State University - Fresno)
- Wisconsin Folksong Collection (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
- John Quincy Wolf Collection of Ozark Folksongs (Lyon College)
- Kodály Québec Folksong Database (Kodály Society of Canada)
- The English & Scottish Popular Ballads of Francis James Child (University of Colorado)
- English Folk Dance and Song Society
- Glasgow Broadside Ballad Collection (University of Glasgow)
- The Traditional Tune Archive (Formerly The Fiddler's Companion)
- Harry Reed Collection: Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier (Library of Congress)
- World & Traditional Music Collection (British Library)
- Nordic Sounds (Nordic Orff Collective)
- Tutti Songbook (Malaysian Song collected by You Zhiyong)
- János Sipos's Folk Music Archive (Turkic Songs collected by János Sipos)
- Hungarian Folk Music Collection (HAS–RCH Institute for Musicology)
- Hungarian Folk Music Audio Collection (Hungarian Museum of Ethnography)
On-Line Folk Music Exhibitions:
Special Topic Presentations at the Library of Congress:
- Aaron Copland Collection
- African-American Band Music & Recordings, 1883 to 1923
- Amazing Grace
- America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets
- American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca. 1490-1920
- American Choral Music
- Ancestral Voices
- Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection
- California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
- Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal
- Colorado Folklife Project Collection
- Dolly Parton and the Roots of Country Music
- Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections
- Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection
- Library of Congress Celebrates the Songs of America
- Montana Folklife Survey Collection
- National Sampler Project
- New Mexico Folklife Project Collection
- "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals
- Omaha Indian Music
- Rhode Island Folklife Project Collection
- South Central Georgia Folklife Project Collection
- Traditional Music and Spoken Word
- Voices from the Dust Bowl
On-line Folk Music Resources
General Resources:
- American Folklore
- Arkansas Folk Encyclopedia
- Ballad of America
- Cultural Equity Project (Alan Lomax Archive)
- Digital Traditions Folk Song Database
- Folk Archive Resource North East (FARNE)
- Folk Music Index
- International Bluegrass Museum
- International Council of Traditional Music
- Irish Music Archive
- Texas Folklore Society
- The Magazine of Traditional Music
- National Museum of African American Music
- Traditional Ballad Index
- Traditional Music Library (UK)
- Traditional Song Forum
- World Music Central
- Smithsonian Institution:
- Center for Folklore & Cultural Heritage
- Smithsonian Folkways Records
- American Roots
- The Blues
- River of Song
- Latin Music USA
- American Epic
- Jazz (Ken Burns)
- Country Music (Ken Burns)
- State of Music (David Holt)