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Deep
Routes offers a portal of links to histories, geographies, performers,
and productions of the
musics featured on the American Routes radio show. Follow the broad categories
below to
selected sites featuring essays, photos, audio and video recordings, archives,
and webcasts.
American Folklife Center.The American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress was created by the U.S. Congress in 1976 and charged to "preserve and present American folklife."
American Music Archives. Presented by Eyeneer Music, this site includes historical backdrops, biographies, discographies, information on recordings for major blues, folk, bluegrass, and gospel musicians.
John Henry: The Steel Driving Man Constructed by graduate students in the school of Mass Communications and Journalism University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this site details the story, the legends, and the music of John Henry.
Folk Music: An Index to Recordings by Jane Keefer. A database index to 25,000 recordings of tunes and songs from traditional and contemporary sources. The recordings indexed generally have a major emphasis on tradition based material from both commercial and non-commercial performers, including a considerable amount of old-time fiddle and banjo tunes.
The Klezmer Revival. Ari Davidow's historical overview of Jewish traditional music.
Library of Congress: Special Archives. Includes rare field recordings, broadcast recordings, photography, and research files.
Red Hot Jazz Archive. Provides a comprehensive view of the pre-1930s jazz movement and its major players.
Sacred Harp Singing. Warren Steele's (University of Mississippi) informative site offers both historical information and sound clips of Sacred Harp singing (also called fasola singing or shape-note singing).
Online Dictionary of the Language of Rap
Graffiti—Art Crimes. These two sites provide an in-depth coverage of the hip-hop movement, battle DJs, turntablists and worldwide graffiti artwork.
Fiddlin'
Around . Newsletter Fiddlin' Around: The Journal of American Roots Music.
Be sure to sign up for the e-mail version.
Year of the Blues.
Presented by the Experience Music Project in association with The Blues Foundation,
the Year of the Blues is a multifaceted program celebrating and creating greater
awareness of the blues and its evolving place in music and cultural history.
The Blue Highway. Presents the history of blues in the Mississippi Delta area. Includes biographies, sound clips, and photo journals.
Border Cultures: Conjunto Music. The links on this page at the University of Texas provide starting points for learning about the conjunto musical style, its history, cultural significance, and artistry.
Bring
Back Route 66. An initiative that seeks to completely resign old Route 66
and return it to American road maps by reinstating its official U.S. Route designation.
Cape Breton Island. Includes festival information, as well as historical
information about the island and its musical traditions.
Chicago Blues: Chess Records and Chicago Blues Artists Who's Who.
Mediterranian Musicians in America. A special issue of Ethnomusicology Online.
The Mississippi: River of Song: Smithsonian Institution media series that explores music along the big river.
Southern Mosaic. The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip is a multiformat ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States collecting folksongs.
Southern Folklife Collection. Search one of the largest archives of traditional music as presented by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Jefferson
County Gospel Quartets Jefferson County, Alabama, a crossroads of steel
and song, is recognized as an important important center for a cappella gospel
singing. This radio feature (25 minutes) explores the history of this tradition
with samples of singing and interviews.
Some of the artists featured on American Routes:
Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys
The Anthology of American Folk Music. The influential 1952 anthology compiled by Harry Smith.
Arhoolie
Records. Recordings and more. Historical and biographical
information on a wide range of artists and musical genres.
Experience Music Project
Experience Music Project (EMP) is an interactive music museum located in Seattle,
Washington.
New World Records. "Dedicated to the documentation of American music that is largely ignored by the commercial recording companies."
Rounder Records. Musicians from a multitude of genres, times, and places.
Real World Records. Beautiful site featuring the musics of musicians from around the globe.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. A treasury of sound from around the world.
AmericanaRama. "If you love American music, and by that we mean country, western, blues, jazz, honky-tonk, singer-songwriters, and much more, then you need to listen to AmericanaRama." Connect to a webcast version of this Monroe, LA radio program.
Acoustic Cafe. Webcast version of commercial radio's showcase for new acoustic music. Interviews, performances.
RealAudio Blues Links Source for a relentless swarm of blues to be heard via RealAudio.
WMMT Mountain Community Radio from Whitesburg, Kentucky.
WWOZ Hear "The Sounds of New Orleans" from WWOZ 90.7FM via its 24-hour internet broadcast.
WXYC University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's radio station provides internet broadcasts of American folk music through the Southern Folklife Collection Show on Sundays from 1:00-2:00 p.m.
College Music Journal. Online version of CMJ Magazine offering artist interviews, upcoming CDs, CMJ charts, music links, and sound clips.
Dirty Linen. An online version of the "magazine of folk and world music." Includes feature articles and reviews of artists from around the world.
OffBeat Magazine. New Orleans' and Louisiana's Music Magazine offers feature articles and news stories on Cajun, blues, and jazz musicians and their works.
American
Routes in the news
"Learning
From The Second-Lines" By Nick Spitzer,
Times-Picayune, October 11, 2007
View Nick Spitzer's multimedia lecture "Rebuilding
the 'Land of Dreams': Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future"
on the internet journal Southern Spaces
"Roads Scholar: Nick Spitzer and the Origins of American Routes"
By Michael Sartisky,
Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Summer 2006
"New Orleans musicians come home — for now" By Paul de Barros,
Seattle Times, May 7, 2006
"'Routes' back home" By Dave Walker,
Times-Picayune, April 30, 2006
"Exile from the Land of Dreams" By Nick Spitzer,
University of Pennsylvania Gazette, January 2006
"This Song Goes Out to You, Big Easy" By Samuel G. Freedman,
New York Times, September 7, 2005
"Culturally Worlds Apart, Children Touch Musically" By Meline
Toumani,
New York Times, December 8, 2004
"Spitzer
puts America in touch with its routes" By Heather A. Davis,
University of Pennsylvania Current, April 15, 2004
"American Routes: Nick Spitzer's Highway of Sounds" By
David Kunian,
Offbeat Magazine, May, 2003
"Eclectic
Chair: American music and Nick Spitzer" By Ron
Swoboda,
New Orleans Magazine, August, 2002
"'Routes' roots are on the road" By Paul
de Barros,
Seattle Times, April 21, 2002
"The Cultural Voyage of American Routes" By Clea Simon,
Boston Globe, May 10, 2001
"American
Routes; Gets To The Roots" By Bradley Bambarger,
Billboard, June 3, 2000
"'Routes'
Returns to its Roots" By Brett Clanton,
New Orleans City Business, December 18, 2000
"Crisscrossing the Wide Map of American music" By Samuel G. Freedman,
New York Times, August 13, 2000
"American Routes Waters Roots of Folk"
By Nat Hentoff,
The Wall Street Journal, February 10, 2000.
"From New Orleans to Your Radio: It's American Routes"
Interview with Nick Spitzer by Allen Tullos,
Southern Changes, Winter
1998.
"Go with the flow: American Routes" By David Cuthbert,
New Orleans Times-Picayune, April 1, 1998.
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