How the First Thanksgiving College Football Game Kicked Off a Holiday Tradition. In 1876, Yale beat Princeton before a sparse crowd, but by the mid-1880s, their annual contest was a major social event that attracted thousands of fans in...

View a webcast of the program put on by the Library of Congress about Irish immigrants. Program includes Irish music, storytelling and poetry.

This site begins with a detailed description of music in Ancient Egypt. Scroll down the page to find information on ancient Egyptian dancing. Although little is known about the subject, this site provides a good amount of insight. The...

African drumming and dance are discussed in this interesting site. You can play with some of the interactive African style drums as well as access video and audio clips of the music.

Small audio archive from an organization dedicated t the preservation and promotion of Irish traditional music. Listen to tracks of reel, jigs, and ballads, both instrumental and vocal.

Small video archive from an organization dedicated t the preservation and promotion of Irish traditional music. View clips of solo performers and bands playing selections of reels, jigs, and hornpipes on fiddles, flutes, pipes,...

This site is from a British project that has collected recordings of traditional Northumbrian folk music. In addition to the the music itself, you'll find plenty of information on instruments, types of folk music, composers and...

Musica del Pueblo is a full-featured resource that explores the traditions of Latino music. Using a colorful mural titled "Song of Unity" as a navigation tool, visitors can watch videos of performances, listen to different varieties of...

Provided on this website are three fun traditional Mexican songs for children to sing and enjoy. The songs are The Poll Parrot, To Jerez We Will Go and The Gruel. Printable pdf files of the music and lyrics are available for download.

Learn about Venezuela's folk traditions and customs such as dance, music, and holidays.

Listen to a sample of traditional Irish music played on the uilleann pipes, from a 1951 recording of music of the world's peoples.

Article explores the influence of jazz on African American literature from the early history of jazz, noted jazz artists, the black-white tensions within jazz, to its literary influence after World War II.

This site illustrates the history behind the tradition of playing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Christmastime in Japan. This story is written and illustrated for children. Includes a sound file of a portion of the ninth symphony.

This project of digital recordings contains one of the largest collections of field recordings from Ghana; including recorded interviews, musical demonstrations, field notebooks, photographs, commentary, and other original source material

Provides information about Japan's traditional bamboo flute, the Shakuhachi. Includes a movie of the instrument being played.

Provides information about Japan's traditional bamboo flute, the Shakuhachi. Includes a movie of the instrument being played.

A personal site providing little-known information and tidbits about famous soul music artists.

Learn about musical elements with cartoons. These hand drawn cartoons offer the viewer a different way to read about music other than the traditional text and pictures.

At this site from the American Experience film on Queen Liliuokalani, you can hear an audio clip of "Aloha Oe", one of the Queen's best known original melodies and see the other music she wrote honoring the Hawaiian musical tradition.

Scroll down a bit to read about the first identifiably American Musical, "The Black Crook." The bare legs of the dancers link it to what became the burlesque tradition.

Young music students rarely see or, better still, hear a connection between the different types of scales, modes, intervals and other compositional techniques such as meter, tonality, and form used in both traditional 'Art' music and...

Learn about folk music and explore some of the world folk music sites.

This lesson is designed to help students recognize how lyrics by the rock-poet Jim Morrison connect with themes from diverse and respected traditional works. While William Blake's influence on Morrison is often noted, this lesson focuses...

One of the most important concepts in economics, particularly macroeconomics, is unemployment. Indeed, much time is devoted in both classrooms and textbooks to discussing the unemployment problem. When used together with the traditional...