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Guilty Leisures and Other Inanities

Musicana

The Blues

• The Blue Highway
• Blues Links
• Jazz Online's Blues Room
  1. Blues News
  2. Blues Artist Profiles
• Central Iowa Blues Society
• Delta Snake Blues News
• King Biscuit Time
• T-Bone's Blues Page
  • Piedmont Blues

Individual Blues Artists

• Rev. Gary Davis
• John Lee Hooker
• Yuri Naumov's Home of Russian Blues
• Muddy Waters

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Jazz

• whilst The Duke Ellington Society's web site is framed, it does (at least sporadically, as of this writing,) provide NOFRAMES for those of you either using frames-incapable browsers or who use a browser that allows you to ignore frames when non-framed content has been provided by the page's author... a more serious accessibility problem, with the TDES's site, however, remains its webmaster's sporadic use of ALT-text
  • Celebrating the First 100 Years of Ellingtonia
  • A Note from the President
  • Ellington Milestones: Newport '56
  • Sing A Song of Ellington
    • Sound File Directory
• The Duke Ellington Home Page

• Red Hot Jazz: a highly recommended site, albeit with the following caveats: The RedHotJazz site is: a) framed, without NOFRAMES alternatives; b) lacks alternative text for images that substitute for page headers; and c) utilizes the RealAudio format for sound files, which means that you need to have RealPlayer installed on your computer. Nevertheless, the site's contents are superb and the sound files are easily located and selected. If you have difficulty downloading RealPlayer, you can use the following link to initialize the download routine for the free RealPlayer. CAUTION: when you select the "initialize the download routine for the free RealPlayer" link, the download will start instantaneously.
• Northwestern University's radio station, WNUR, manitains an excellent index of jazz-related resources known as JazzWeb
  • JazzWeb's "People of Jazz" directory (bios, discographies & reviews)
  • JazzWeb Styles Index
  • JazzWeb's Jazz Instrument Information & Resources
  • Jazz Education and Musicianship
  • JazzWeb's Performance Page (festivals, venues, regional jazz info)
• Hard Bop Homepage: a site dedicated to the jazz of the late fifties and early sixties known as Hard Bop; the music, the musicians, plus links to the best of hard bop on the web.
• Jazz Roots
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk
• Marcel Safier's Jazz Page
  
  
• The Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University (Newark)
• William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz

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Crank It and See...

• The Edison Shop
• Ragtime Home Page
• The 78rpm Home Page
• Bill Clark's 78rpm page, from which one can order 78rpm records as well as steel gramophone needles... oh, and there's a frame-based version of Bill Clark's 78rpm page, as well
• Swazoo Koolak's 78rpm Web Jukebox: listen to 78rpm recordings as MP3 files

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Reggae

• Burning Spear's official web site
• Dread Library: a collection of academic papers on the subject of "the rhetoric of reggae"
• the Jammin' Reggae Archive is an excellent jumping-off point
• Reggae Lyrics Archive
• JahRed's Reggae Links
• On-line Reggae Artist database
• Roger Steffans's ReggaeSupersite
• Ska Reggae Dub
• Talking Drum Reggae homepage of the legendary producer/dubmaster Scientist
• Cool Reggae Runnings

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Real Music

• Eric Charry's collection of Ethnomusicology Resources on the Web
• Afro-Carribean Music
• The Global Link
• Roots World
• West African Music
• Zouk Archive
  • the actual archives, indexed by band/performer name
• Traditional World Music Recordings
  • Hindustani (North India)
  • Carnatic (South India)
  • Iranian Chamber Music
  • Central Javanese Gamelan
  • Other Near-Eastern Music (Egypt, Turkey, etc.)
  • Other East Asian Music (China, Bali, etc.)

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Ancient and Medieval

• Early Music FAQ
  • Gregorian Chant
  • Medieval Music
  • Renaissance Music
  • Baroque
  
  
• Early Women Composers, an excellent--and extremely accessible--web site, maintained by Sarah Whitworth
  1. Women Composer's MIDIfiles
  2. Search The Early Women Composers' web site
  
  
• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum: an encyclopedic, searchable database of information about Latin/medieval music
  
  
• CANTUS: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant
  1. Download or View the contents of CANTUS' database of chants (downloads are TEXT!)
  2. Search CANTUS' database for specific chants
  3. What's New in the CANTUS Database
  4. CANTUS Indicies in Progress
  5. CANTUS' Index Wish List
  
  
  
• Gregorian Chant Home Page
• Pre-1600 Ballads
• Early Music Institute at the Indiana University School of Music
• Harmonia: homepage of the Early Music program produced at WFIU (Indiana University)
• B.O.M.B.: The Benevolent Order for Music of the Baroque

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Early Music Ensembles

• Altramar
• Ars Femina Ensemble

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Uncatagorizable

Worldwide Internet Music Resources is a massive meta-index compiled by the staff of the William and Gayle Cook Music Library of Indiana University

• The Progressive Rock Web Site actually not as lame as its name would imply...
  • The Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock
    • full hypertext version
    • The North American home site
    • The European mirror site
  
  
• The Guitarist: the web site of The Classical Guitar Mailing List
  • The Classical Guitar Home Page
  • The Flamenco Guitar Home Page
  
  
• The Theremin Home Page
• Theramin
• Cool Hand Uke's Lava Tube: Ukulele Music and Song

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Bands (Popular & Otherwise)

• The Asylum Street Spankers
• The Blind Boys of Alabama
• Buzzcocks
  1. Buzzcocks Discography/History
• Doctor Nerve, a self-described "avant-rock ensemble", led by guitarist/composer Nick Didkovsky
  1. Doctor Nerve Main Menu
  2. Nerve Interactive Menu
• The Gladiators
• J-Tull dot com: the official Jethro Tull website
• Jethro Tull Music Archive
• Oingo Boingo
• get funked up at The Motherpage!
• chew out them rhythms on yer bubble gum at Rockaway Beach
• Finnish Ramones page (don't worry, pinhead, it's in english)
• The Original (Unofficial) Sex Pistols Web Page
• Pete Shelly
  1. Pete Shelly's Buzzcocks page
• Squirrel Nut Zippers ECD Homepage
• the official Muddy Waters web site, maintained by the estate of the late, great McKinley Morganfield, which has also trademarked the man's nomme de guerre...
• Hank Williams

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Composers

• John Adams
• Alfonso X el Sabio
• Béla Bartók
• Johann Sebastian (J.S.) Bach
• Hector Berlioz
• Benjamin Britten
• Guillaume Dufay
• Henryk Gorecki
• Alan Hovhaness
• Johannes Ockeghem
• Arvo Part
• Francis Poulenc
• Sergei Prokofiev
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• John Taverner
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  
  
• Classical Net's Composer Index
• Glen C. Ford's Mozart Among Us is an extensive site dedicated to what he describes as "modern art music"... several of the individual composers' pages listed above are part of Ford's project
• Unknown Composers Page

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Ensembles and Orchestras

• Camerata Hungarica Home Page
• New York Philharmonic

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Labels

• Accurate Records
• Andy's Productions
  • Vintage Reggae from Andy's Productions
• Antone's Records
• Africassette Music
• Axiom Home Page
• Bear Family Records (framed graphical interface ONLY)
• BiB Records
• the Blind Pig Records web site, i am over-joyed to report, is quite accessible
• Blood And Fire (criminally inaccessible)
• BMG Classical Music World
• Cuneiform Records
• Document Records (jazz & blues)
• Delmark Records
• Delos International
• Dorian Recordings
• ECM Records
• Folkways
• Heartbeat Records-Main Page
• Indian House Music (Taos, New Mexico)
  1. browse the catalog
• Island Records text-only homepage
  • Island Records Index
• The Mammoth Recording Company of Carrboro
• Music of the World
• Ponk Records
• Rounder Records Catalogue
• Shanachie Records
• Sound of New Orleans
• Strata-East Records
• Testament (blues)
• Theocratic Records (roots reggae)
• Verve Blues
• Village Pulse Recordings (African percussion)
• Wa Nui Records
• World Music Distribution

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Sound Sources

if you want to play .wav, .voc, .snd, and .au files from the DOS prompt, download dossound.zip this collection of DOS sound utilities contains: plany.exe, plany.doc, sun2voc.exe, sun2voc.doc, record.exe, record.doc, plus a .wav and an .au soundfile

play.zip: DOS-based soundblaster and compatible .wav, .voc, .cmf, and midi player (20k)

sun2voc .au to .voc conversion utility (7k)

• Cartoons
• Comedy
• Movies
• TV Shows
• Themes
• Spoofs
• Sound Effects
• Miscellaneous
• New Sound Files
• Undefinable Sounds (a.k.a. What Is It?)
• SoundAmerica's Sound Utilities Collection
• Frequently Asked Questions
• the following page is extremely text-hostile, and doesn't work too well under Windows with anything short of pwWebSpeak
  • SoundAmerica's Sound Links

• Peruvian Music
• Radio Sounds from the Bellingham Radio Museum
• The Simpsons!
• Beavis & Butthead Sound Files
  • ftp directory of beavis and butthead sounds
• Chris Lundie's Monty Python Sounds
• JJ Meddaugh's Michiweb MIDI Archive
• The Cyber-Tsar's MIDIporch
• .wav files from EarthStation1
  • The Radio Sounds Showcase: a collection of wav files
  • The TV, Movie, & Radio Themes Page
  • The TV Sounds Showcase
  • The Movie Sounds Showcase
• Mostly Early Mostly MIDI: soundfiles by women composers active before 1756
• .wav files from Clay's Sound Emporium
• recordings of selected poems by Robert Frost
• The Electronic Poetry Center's Sound Room
  • Audio Art

Once upon a time, Radio Days was one of the more accessible audio-oriented sites on the web. Recently, however, the site was given a thurough overhaul, and the once speech-friendly text-only version of the site disappeared, replaced by a single USEMAPped page. Use the following list to directly access Radio Days contents. Note: you need the RealAudio player to listen to these files.

1) Captain Midnight

2) The Strange Doctor Weird

3) Radio News: classic broadcasts and broadcasters

4) Private Eyes

5) Mysteries

6) Comedies

7) Science Fiction

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Castigat ridendo mores

• And Now for Something Completely Different...
• It's... Monty Python's Flying Circus
  • Episode Guide
  • Images
  • Sounds
  • Song Texts
  • Chords
  • Search Item
  • Full-Text Search on Monty Python Scripts
• The Annotated Philosopher's Song
  
  
• Sony's Seinfeld Home Page (link bypasses Flash animation)
• Seinfeld Scriptss (beware the GeoCities pop-up window)
• Seinfeld Sounds (naked directory listing)
  
  
• Rec.humor.funny Home Page
  1. The latest jokes from RHF

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Mind Games

!sdrawkcaB bew eht no etis yna fruS

flagellation lost its charm? sounds as if you need to visit the Virtual Confession Booth

send that someone special an emessage they won't soon forget (or figure out) using either the:

The Shakespeare Insult Server

or the Personalized Shakespearean Insult Mailbot

broaden your horizons by learning to swear in over 120 languages by using The Alternative Dictionaries

or, just Learn How to Swear in German

or learn innumerable ways to get beaten to a pulp in Queens using The Dictionary of Decadence

either way, you won't want to miss Popeye's What Does That Word Mean, Mummy?

The Santessons, Swedes at large in the Netherlands, maintain an ecclectic collection of resources, including:

1) Cursing in Swedish: a crash course, replete with pleny of sound files to ensure proper pronunciation

2) Cursing in Dutch: no sound files yet, but enough to make your stay in Amsterdam truly memorable

3) Cursing in Afrikaans

4) The Dirty Jokes Collection

a load of crap from Jeff Zalkind, Hamburg's self-proclaimed "Purveyor of Crap"

German Cool/German Crap

Types of Crap

Terms for Taking a Crap

Crappy German Film Translations

How to Swear in German

The Urban Legends Archive the semi-official web site of the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup

Search for recent AFU topics

The AFU FAQ

Life can be so confusing... There you are, sitting around, having a few with your friends, when, suddenly, the question arises: "He's dead, isn't he?" Find out who's really taking the six-foot snooze and who's merely moved to Florida with the Dead People Server... Amaze your friends and confound your enemies!

The Official Joke of the Day! Home Page

Joke Archive

Doctor Nerve's Markov Page

What's a Markov Process?

PinealWeb: a trinary for use with Ontology 1.2

Top Ten Lists from The Late Show with David Letterman

Load this page to get a random message from Jim Rockford's Answering Machine... don't ask me why--all i know is that it keeps my brother off the streets...

Audyssey: The Gaming Magazine for the Blind

Interactive Fiction: Criticism and Authorship

Interactive Fiction Archive

The New York Times Trivia Quiz

past NYT Trivia Quizes

The Animals Game--think of an animal and the computer attempts to identify it by asking you yes and no questions...

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Quod me alit me extinguit

"The man who smokes thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan."
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Night and Day

• Cigar Store Search Engine
• A Little Taste of Cuba, located in Princeton, New Jersey, sells the "Best Cigars in the Free World"
• The Wonderful World of Smoking
• The Pipes Page

American Beer: Glimpses of Its History and Description of Its Manufacture, written by G. Thomann and published by the United States Brewers' Association in 1909, is a fascinating and thirst-provoking gem... "History with a head", raved the esteemed historian GJ Guinness, professor of Hopology at Trinity College, Dublin

The Brewery: a comprehensive collection of information about the art and science of brewing beer

• The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Hypertext Library: pre-prohibition (read: pre-1937) writings on narcotics (in particular, cannibis) use in the United States
• The Hyperreal Drugs Archive
• Paranoia's Drug information Server
• Drug Related Street Terms/Slang Words
• Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
• National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML)

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De gustibus non est disputandum

• Nordamannia--Normans, where you'd least expect them...
• Yep, It's Barney's Page, but it's not what you'd expect...
  • Ask Dr. Barney!
• The Smokey the Bear Sutra
• Surreality
• SubSite: the official, Dobbs-blessed SubGenius web site...
  • The Church of the SubGenius
• Cult of the Dead Cow
• The Flat Earth Society
  1. FELFAT: The Flat Earth Liberation Front Against Television
• Hyper-Weirdness
• The Most Fucked-Up Person Alive Tells All

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Katja's Korner

1. Saint of the Day
2. The Book of Quinte Essence: a mid-fifteenth century magical text
3. Touch Heals
4. Kestrell's Cauldron
5. The Complete Works of Aleister Crowley
6. On-line Resources for Buddhist Studies
7. The Alchemy Virtual Library
8. The Philosophers of Nature
9. Algy's Herb Page (newly reformatted, and more speech-unfriendly than ever)
   1. Herbal Lore
   2. Algy's HerbBoard (interactive herb talk)
10. Arcana Tarot Card Project
11. U.S. Grand Lodge, OTO
    1. Anubis Camp Links
    2. Online Document Index
    3. A Critical History of the Ordo Templi Orientis
12. Web pages about journaling

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Assorted (or is it merely Unsorted) Nuts

1. Frequency Modulated Utopia
   • Listen to WFMU via RealAudio
     • Updates on the State of WFMU's Audio Stream
   • WFMU's All-Purpose Pledge Page
   • WFMU's GopherSpace
2. Panix Gopher server
3. The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Electronic Journals
4. The Village Voice Essential guide to New York at night
5. Argentine Soccer * Futbol Argentino
6. South American Soccer Links
7. NBA.com
8. University of Notre Dame's Official Athletic Site
9. The Basketball Server
10. ESPNET SportsZone
11. GNN Sports
12. SportsLine USA
13. College Football World Wide Web Site
14. Packer Plus
15. PBS Online
16. The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Subject Catalogue
17. Download Games NOW!
18. pc directory
19. Other Sites
20. Assorted Wave Files
21. Welcome directory
22. pc
23. Welcome to The EAR-chives!
24. Archie Request Form
25. CineMedia/Films
26. sounds directory
27. The Ultimate TV & Movie MIDI Page - Links
28. Stichting DMA Home Page
29. Russell Sayers' TV/Movie web site
30. Index of /ftp/Sounds/Waveform/
31. The Joker's Sound Archive
32. Other Sites
33. Game Page
34. Index of /pub/games at cdrom.com
35. Game Page of the Universe
36. Great Games on the Internet
37. ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/aa/aaronilk/
38. Index of /~software/shareware/game
39. Hollow Ear
40. Casbah
41. Telarc International
42. Square Records
43. La Scala
44. BluesNet home page
45. The Blues Page
46. Knitting Factory Home Page
47. Music Previews Network - Artist Listing
48. Music Previews Network - Jazz
49. to Muse Magazine
50. Record Collectors Web Home Page
51. CDnow
52. CDnow : Main menu
53. Tom Morgan's Jazz and Blues
54. Anil Prasad's INNERVIEWS
55. The Bluebird Cafe not much of a site, but one hell of a club...
56. Doc Watson
57. Marley's 50th birthday celebration
58. Vialli's Marley Page
59. Selassie I
60. Web Wide World of Music
61. Fish Information Service (FINS) Index
62. Arthur Goldstuck's "Music of South Africa"
63. The utterly unbiased
64. The History of Health

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Terminal Index

1. An American Exegesis

2. Blindness-Related Resources on the Web & Beyond

3. Caveat Lector

4. Civitas: Link Locally, Act Globally

5. Hystery, Mistory, Prophecy

6. Read 'Em and Speak!

7. The Virtual Museum

8. return to Camera Obscura

9. return to the top of Mea Maxima Culpa

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