Related Programs, Organizations and Resources

UL Lafayette Colleges, Centers, and Programs:

College of Liberal Arts:

• Cajun and Creole Studies Minor, Department of Modern Languages 
• Center for Louisiana Studies and Archive of Cajun and Creole Folklore
• Folklore programs, Department of English
• Francophone Studies – Graduate programs, Department of Modern Languages
• Guilbeau Center for Public History
• Public History – Graduate program, Department of History, Geography and Philosophy

College of the Arts - School of Music and Performing Arts:

• Music Business program
• Music Media program
• Recording Arts program
• Traditional Music program

Public Radio Station

• KRVS Radio Acadie

Also in Louisiana:

• C.R.E.O.L.E. Inc.
• Cajun French Music Association (CFMA)
• Cajun and Zydeco Photos on Flickr (including complete photo archives) – David Simpson
• CajunLyrics (Database of Cajun, Creole, zydeco, swamp pop, swamp-blues, delta blues, southern rock, and other Louisiana-related lyrics)
• Devillier's Cajun Music History – Neal Granger (Blog) – (Includes biographical and career information for musicians)
• Early Cajun Music – Wade Falcon (Blog)
• Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz – Special Collections, Tulane University Libraries
• Louisiana Dancehalls
• Louisiana Digital Library
• Louisiana Digital Media Archive (LPB and Louisiana State Archives)
• Louisiana Folk Roots (Lafayette, LA)
• Louisiana Folklife Center, Northwestern State University of Louisiana
• Louisiana Folklife Program, Louisiana Division of the Arts
• Louisiana Voices: Folklife in Education Project, Louisiana Division of the Arts
• 64 Parishes – Encyclopedia – (Digital encyclopedia of Louisiana & home of 64 Parishes Magazine)
• Southwest Louisiana Musicians Encyclopedia, Archives, Frazar Memorial Library, McNeese State University
• Zydeco Historical and Preservation Society, Inc. (ZHPS)
• Zydeco Online (Blogspot)

Discographies – Online:

• American Discography Project (UCSB Library, Packard Humanities Institute, and NEH) and the Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) – UCSB Library, Packard Humanities Institute, and NEH
• Cajun Records, 1946-1989 – A Discography Compiled by Nick Leigh (Revised) (PDF)
• Discogs
• 45cat – Discographies, discussions, discoveries (database for searching vinyl 45s)
• Great 78 Project and 78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood on the Internet Archive (Free audio download and streaming)
• Online 78rpm Discographical Project (Steven Abrams)

Related Sites:

• American Folklife Center (Library of Congress)
• ARChive of Contemporary Music
• Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University Libraries
• Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)
• Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Packard Campus (Library of Congress)
• Blues Archive, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
• Cajun Music mp3 – Hadacol it Something! (Neal Pomea)
• Council on Library and Information Resources (full-text reports on preservation, digitization, and copyright)
• International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA)
• Internet Archive – Music, Arts, and Culture
• IRENE – Audio Preservation at NEDCC (Northeast Document Conservation Center)
• IRENE (Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, Etc.) – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and LC (project history; optical scanning of sound recordings; 2D and 3D imaging for preservation and access)
• John and Alan Lomax in Louisiana, 1934 (digital resource for the study of the 1934 recordings) – Joshua Clegg Caffery, John W. Kluge Center Alan Lomax Fellowship
• Lomax Family Collections (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
• Music Library Association
• National Jukebox (Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress)
• National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB) of the Library of Congress
• National Recording Registry (NRPB)
• NEDCC – Northeast Document Conservation Center
• Recorded Sound Reference Center, Library of Congress
• Smithsonian Folkways Recordings (Smithsonian Radio, Playlists and Podcasts)
• Society of American Archivists (SAA)
• Songs of America (LC and SI)
• Southern Folklife Collection, Special Collections, Louis Round Wilson Library, University of North Carolina