Directions: Use these webpages for a Music Web Quest about different styles of traditional music in Louisiana. Record your findings on the Music Web Quest Record Sheet. Compare your findings with classmates and draw conclusions about what was found.

Louisiana Music Online

• Acadian and Creole Folklore Archives, University of Louisiana at Lafayette (audio) (Select Louisiana Digital Folklore Archive, then scroll down to Titles - Music, then Varise Connor)
• alltheweb.com (audio, video) Search the entire Web for MP3 files.
• American Routes radio program features many audio clips about Louisiana musicians. Find a list at American Routes and Louisiana Voices.
• folkstreams.net / Dry Wood by Les Blank (video) Features entire video documentary about Creole musicians Alphonse "Boic Sec" Ardoin and Canray Fontenot. Includes transcripts and notes.
• Louisiana State Museum / Jazz Audio Glossary (audio) Features jazz instruments.
• Louisiana State Museum / New Orleans Jazz Club Vintage Radio Broadcasts (audio) Features radio broadcasts from the 1960s.
• National Public Radio / Audio Archives. Find a list of audio clips on Louisiana folk culture topics at National Public Radio and Louisiana Voices.
• Red Hot Jazz Archive (audio, video) (Search for a jazz artist to get a list of online music). Features jazz before 1930.
• River of Song / Louisiana (audio, video) The fourth episode in this PBS series is Louisiana: Where Music is King, which features 11 musicians and ensembles. Episodes 1-3 feature 30 additional groups from the Chippewa Nation in Minnesota to the Mississippi Mass choir. Includes an online Teacher's guide
• Southern Mosaic: John and Ruby Lomax Recording Trip (audio) (Scroll down to Special Presentation: The 1939 Recording Expedition. Then select Louisiana.)

Music Online from Around the Unite States

• Alabama Center for Traditional Arts (audio) (Select Musics of Alabama, Shape-Note Singing, Shape Singing Convention, Alabama School of Gospel Music, Alabama Folkways Radio Series, Alabama Folkways Series) Features many forms of musics, from work songs and blues to spirituals and gospel, from fiddle tunes and lullabies to mariachi and polka.
• Balkan Dance in Washington State (Select Folk Arts, then Balkan Dance)(audio) Features music, dance, and costumes.
• The Blue Highway (Select Bluescasts for audio). Links to live and archived blues radio.
• Crossroads of the Heart / Mississippi Music (audio) Features blues, gospel, fiddling, and Sacred Harp singing.
• Dancing with the Virgin: Body and Faith in the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico. (video) Features traditional sacred and social music and dance of the PuebloS.
• folkstreams.net (video) (Select Music) Features entire video documentaries about traditional cultures with transcripts, notes, and often study guides.
• Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns (Select Classroom for lesson plans and activities. Select Biographies for audio.) The first of ten episodes features New Orleans jazz. website includes biographies, songs, instruments, and lessons.
• Lady Sings the Blues (Lesson Plans) Interdisciplinary lesson using the book, The Color Purple and blues artists.
• Music from the Sunshine State / Florida Folklife Program (audio) 13-part radio series. website features 30-second audio bytes of fiddling traditions: Mexican, old-time country, bluegrass, Pacific Island, sacred music, blues, Cuban, Caribbean.
• Music Resources Center (video) (Select Music Traditions of the World) Features video clips from documentaries on Cajun, Creole, Polish Americans, old-time fiddling, blues, and African Americans Texans.
• Résonance: Musical Heritage of La Francophonie (video) Virtual exhibit of Francophone music and instruments.
• Sound Traditions: Profiles of World Musicians in Southern California (audio) Five-minute audio programs on traditions from around the world.
• Traditions of Change: Five Korean-American Traditions in Washington State (audio) Features music, instruments, dance, storytelling, theater, costumes, painting.
• Washington Folk Arts / Northwest Heritage Tours (audio) Five virtual tours through Washington State.
• What's Your Name?: Rhymes and Rhythms from Pennsylvania's Neighborhoods (audio) (Select Resources, Arts & Heritage) Features music of Zaire, Irish, Native American, Lithuanian, bluegrass, Hungarian, Trinidad, Hmong, Puerto Rico, Yiddish, gospel, and old-time fiddle.
• Wiregrass Ways Radio Program / South Georgia Folklife Project (audio) 13 five-minute radio programs on Georgia folk traditions. Music traditions include fiddling, Sacred Harp singing, gospel, auctioneering, hymn lining, hollering or yodeling, old-time country, bluegrass.
• Wisconsin Folks / Music Traditions (audio, video) Features music, dance, crafts, food and occupational traditions. Music traditions include polka, Objibwe flute, gospel, and Hmong. Compare the accordion and music style of the Happy Notes, a Polish-American polka band from Stevens Point, WI, with Louisiana accordion music or see Joe Bee Xiong of Eau Claire, WI demonstrate Hmong musical instruments.
• Wolf Trap Folk Masters (audio) Features lessons on Hawaiian guitar, klezmer, and zydeco.

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