Research Guides: Old Time Music Resources: Jams and camps

Head, Warren D. Allen Music Library

Laura Gayle Green

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Allen Music Library
College of Music, FSU
122 N. Copeland St.
Tallahassee, FL 32306

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Frequently Used Resources

Academic Search Complete
A general periodical index that includes music and interdisciplinary topics among many others.
Chicago Manual of Style ONLINE
Dissertations and Theses
Google Scholar with FSU full-text links
Google Scholar can be a useful searching tool, particularly when it checks against the electronic full text holdings at FSU. This link requires you to log in with your FSU e-mail information-- but it's worth it!
Interlibrary Loan
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) is a service where a student, faculty, or staff of Florida State University may obtain books or obtain photocopies of articles from other institutions.
JStor
Main Campus printing plus print drivers
Download drivers to your computer; you can then send a print job to a campus printer and release it/print it on campus!
Music Index Online
Indexes major music periodicals from 1970 to the present.
Oxford Bibliographies
Great resource to target the top readings and resources on specific topics.
Oxford Handbooks Online
Choose "Music"
Oxford Music Online
Great first stop for composer, genre, period, instrument information and more. Article bibliographies get you to the next step in your research. Includes Grove Music and other relevant titles.
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Contains Grove Music and more.
Purdue Online Writing Lab: Chicago Manual Style
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
The main scholarly index to articles about music.

Oxford Reference (5 concurrent user limit) This link opens in a new window
includes Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed., Grove Opera, and more
Please note: Oxford Reference only allows access for 5 FSU users at one time. If you are being asked for a username and password, please try to access the database later.

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Oxford Scholarship Online This link opens in a new window
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Jams, Camps, plus fun Tallahassee Happenings

Tallahassee Old-Time Jam on Facebook
2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month, 4-6pm at the Blue Tavern on N. Monroe (across from Wells Fargo Bank).

Because you can't get enough of that Old Time Music!

ALWAYS CALL AHEAD if a phone number is provided and it's your first time to jam with this group.

This photo is of a Virginia couple at a house jam in the 1970s (your music librarian's parents).

Appalachian String Band Fesival
also known as "Clifftop"
Blue Ridge Music Trails
Traveling to Virginia or North Carolina? Check out jams and music along the way at this site!
Camp: The Swannanoa Gathering
Camps, festivals from the Banjo Hangout
The Crooked Road
Jams and music venues along "The Crooked Road" in Virginia. LGG grew up in Rocky Mount, Virginia, the town that anchors the eastern end of the Crooked Road.
Galax Old Fiddler's Convention
The oldest and the biggest.
Sparrow Music Camp
Tallahassee Community Friends of Old-Time Dance
ON BREAK JULY 2023. Also known as the ContraDances at the Senior Center on N. Monroe. Want to meet new people, enjoy live music, and burn off some stress? Bring a snack to share, $5 if you're a student, and wear comfy shoes. Usually 2nd and 4th Fridays 7:30-10:30p.

Tallahassee Flying Banjo Squadron: 3rd Thursdays of the month, 6pm at Lichgate in Tallahassee (on High St., south of Tharpe). The link is actually for Lichgate, a cottage located on a property with a massive Live Oak tree. Despite the name, the Flying Banjo Squadron welcomes all old-time music instruments and their performers.