About the collection This project, The American Music Resource, comes from my own interests in American music and the work of the graduate students in my seminar on American composers, first offered in the fall of 1988. The growing results of this bibliographic research are contained herein along with a few other materials. DISCLAIMER: in its present state, this library is contained in ASCII text-files developed independently by the participants. No attempts at any single form of bibliographical standardization have been made, nor do the materials claim to be totally accurate, complete or exhaustive. The date found at the end of each file indicates when it was completed. CAVEAT: a few of the subject files are no more than garbage - and some contain pure gold - but most of them are fairly comprehensive. The topic files list most of the standard sources and should be good starting points for a wide variety of research. However, don't expect to find citations for every possible book on a given topic. USE: the unsigned bibliographies may be used freely for any purpose and are available for GOPHER searching and FTP downloading (in which case, files are listed by special prefix/suffix filenames: filename logic is described in two files, AMRNAMES for prefixes and AMRFILES for suffixes). HOWEVER: be aware that signed research notes and on-line documents are property of the given authors and, while they may be read and cited, bear copyright protection. PARTICIPATION: You may wish to communicate with AMR, or participate in the research notes, or add bibliographical material to the collection, or update or modify what it now contains. These tasks may all be accomplished by sending E-mail messages to - amr@sunsite.unc.edu. (see AMRCOMM for more details) Frank McCarty, editor. 5/15/94