Digital Collections

David Van Vactor Collection [online]. Knoxville: Digital Library Center, University of Tennessee Libraries, forthcoming.

George Boswell Papers [online]. Nashville, Tenn.: Special Collections, Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, n.d. Available from: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/vrr/boswell.shtml.
Includes a selection of Tennessee folk songs from the manuscript collection.

Historic American Sheet Music [online]. Durham, NC: Digital Scriptorium, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, 1998 [cited 8 July 2002]. Available from: http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/.
Try keyword searches for such terms as State songs Tennessee, Blues, and Civil War.

Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, 1870-1885 [online]. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1999 [cited 6 July 2002]. Available from: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/smhtml/smhome.html.
This collection includes ten works with Tennessee in the title. A keyword search for a specific city (e.g., Nashville) will retrieve works that were published in Tennessee.

Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century [online]. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2001 [cited 3 June 2002]. Available from: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/iauhtml/tccchome.html.
Includes digital images of publicity brochures for over 4500 performers and speakers who were part of the Chautauqua circuit. These talent brochures are a part of the Records of the Redpath Lyceum Bureau, held by the University of Iowa Libraries. Includes publicity brochures for the Fisk Jubilee Singers.

W.C. Handy: Father of the Blues [online]. Florence: University of Northern Alabama Libraries, 1999 [cited 14 April 2002. Available from: http://www2.una.edu/library/handy/index.html.

Guides to Archival & Special Collections

Neal, James H. Music Research in Tennessee: A Guide to Special Collections. Murfreesboro : Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University, 1989. 75p.

• Center for Popular Music [MTSU]
• Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
• Music in Appalachia [Archives of Appalachia, ETSU]
• Southern Folklife Collection [UNC Chapel Hill]

Selected Books

Hay, Frederick J., ed. Goin' Back to Sweet Memphis: Conversations with the Blues. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2001. 271p.

McKee, Margaret, and Fred Chisenhall. Beale Black and Blue: Life and Music on America's Main Street. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1981]. 265p.
Excerpts from oral history interviews.