AMERICAN MUSIC RESOURCE - introduction AMR contains bibliographies, lists and text files about all styles of American music and related issues. The collection is indexed by (3.) subject-name (i.e. the last names of composers - currently 64) and (4.) topic-name (e.g. Electroacoustic music - currently 22). From one to ten or more types of files may be found for each subject or topic. The collection is also indexed by different file-types (currently 20) under the Bibliographical Index (5.). Furthermore, a word-search of the entire collection is available (8.). Additionally, the resource contains growing collections of research notes and discussions, listed by topic (6.), and soon will contain a few on-line documents (7.). For more detailed information and suggestions for use, see the files under (2.) Contents, Caveata and Communications. 5/94