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Selected Folk Song Resources & Indexes


The Sing Out! Resource Center

The American Folk Life Center

Australian Folk Song Index

Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads

The Child Ballads

Drinking Songs Index

Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839: An Index

The English Folk Dance and Song Society

Folk Archive Resource North East

German Ballad Catalog

The Irish Traditional Music Archive

The James Madison Carpenter Collection Online Catalogue

The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip, an ethnographic field collection

John Quincy Wolf Folklore Collection of Ozark folk songs

The Mudcat Caf� & Discussion Forum

Roud Folk Song Index

The Traditional Ballad Index

University of Tennessee Song Index

Vaughn Williams Memorial Library and access to English Folk Dance and Song Society

The Word on the Street

Digital Collections


African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920

Duke's collection of Historic American Sheet Music. (Digital Collection)

Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music

Recorded Resources


The Child Ballads Project: Recorded Sources of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

A Discography of Recorded Traditional Music

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