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Music Resources on the Internet
| Description | URL |
| Online Music | |
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| iTunes - currently the largest online music store | http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/ |
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 "[was]
the world's leading file sharing community." Napster was recently
purchased by Bertelsmann. |
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| Organizations | |
 ASCAP
- The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. ASCAP's function
is to protect the rights of its members by licensing and paying royalties
for the public performances of their copyrighted works. |
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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) promotes the arts in the United States, including music Songs of the Century, archived from 2003 |
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| Search engines and Classified Sites | |
 is
a classified guide to all kinds of music, and contains biographies, discographies,
pictures, and links to purchase CDs. |
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 Yahoo!
is one of the largest classifiers of web sites, and this music site is
no exception. Thousands of music sites classified into dozens of categories... |
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| ... including this misunderstood lyrics site: | |
| Yahoo has pages on many kinds of music: |
Rock at http://rock.yahoo.com/
Jazz at http://jazz.yahoo.com/ Classical at http://classical.yahoo.com/ Country at http://country.yahoo.com/ Urban at http://urban.yahoo.com/ |
| KISSTHISGUY.COM is the only domain named after the world's most commonly misheard lyric. If you start remembering a few mondegreens of your own, check into this Misheard Lyrics site. | |
| Secondhand Songs - a database of covers (songs recorded by somebody other than the artist who originally released them) | http://www.secondhandsongs.com/home/ |
| Censorship | |
| A Brief History of Banned Music in the United States | |
 Mass.
M.I.C....is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and preserving free expression in music. Mass Mic is for musicians, fans, promoters, music media, and music industry professionals. We are a coalition of individuals dedicated to fighting music censorship. |
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| Jazz | |
 Jazz
Roots - As a musical language of communication, jazz is the first indigenous
American style to affect music in the rest of the World. From the beat
of ragtime syncopation and driving brass bands to soaring gospel choirs
mixed with field hollers and the deep down growl of the blues, jazz's many
roots are celebrated almost everywhere in the United States. |
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 Troy
native Nick Brignola is a master of many reed instruments; an award-winning
baritone saxophonist with a warm, distinctive tone, Brignola also displays
outstanding abilities on alto sax, clarinet, flute and piccolo. |
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