This remarkable collection sponsored by the Los Tigres del Norte Foundation and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center offers users access to thousands of Mexican and Mexican-American vernacular recordings. On this site, visitors can access lyrics, music, and various tales contained within these invaluable primary source materials. First-time visitors can get a feel for the materials here by...

The Trap Set is a podcast for drummers, music lovers, and anyone who enjoys hearing artists reflect on their creative processes. Every week Joe Wong interviews a different drummer and invites his guests to speak about how they came to music, their development as an artist, and their approach to practice and performing. Wong's low-key interview style and direct, detailed questions allow each guest...

If you have been pining for a recording of Henri Lacroix singing "La parade des ouvriers", this website from the Library and Archives of Canada will be quite a delight. Created as a multimedia database, the site is devoted to the earliest days of recorded music in Canada, and it contains hundreds of digitized recordings that include both Canadian artists and material written by Canadians. Of...

Theo Wangemann was the world's first professional sound recordist, and was hired by Thomas Edison in 1888 to produce a set of musical recordings for the wax cylinder phonograph. Wangemann worked at Edison's West Orange, New Jersey laboratory in 1888-89. Interestingly enough, Wangemann is perhaps best known (until now) for his work recording Johannes Brahms at the piano in 1889. In 2011, the...

A music professor from the University of California at San Diego, Miller Puckette, is in the process of writing a book on electronic music, and the draft version can be found on this site. The book "is about using electronic techniques to record, synthesize, process, and analyze musical sounds." It focuses exclusively on the use of computers and computer music tools in the creation and composition...

Thirteen/WNET is New York's celebrated public television station, and their website has a section devoted to their series called Sunday Arts. The half hour program is on Sundays at noon, and visitors can check out what's coming up by clicking on "Program Schedule" near the top of the page. The website provides information on art exhibits, and music, dance, and theatrical performances that are...

Have you ever heard a song while watching a television show or playing a game and wondered what it was? Readers with this experience may find Tunefind to be a helpful resource. Founded in 2005, Tunefind offers visitors a searchable, user-driven catalog of music featured in television, movies, and video games. In addition to using Tunefind's search bar to locate a title or music artist, visitors...

In September 1876, Karl Marx found the time to complain in a letter to his daughter Jenny: "Wherever one goes these days one is pestered with the question: What do you think of Wagner?" In his life, Richard Wagner was the subject of great discussion and admiration, and his works remain immensely popular today. Taken together, these two sites represent a nice introduction to both the man and his...

Whether you are a music historian looking to examine the role of popular song in the United States in the 20th century or just looking for a few songs to sing around the piano, the Digital Archive of Popular American Music at UCLA will definitely pique the interest of even the most casual visitors. From their massive collection of close to 450,000 pieces of sheet music, the specialists at the UCLA...

Born in 1920, cellist James Arkatov performed with the San Francisco Symphony and other organizations before helping form the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. As the son of a photographer, he also became quite well known for his shots of various artists, conductors, and soloists in performance. He later donated this amazing trove of images to the UCLA Library allowing for this digitized collection...