LINKS

Music Education

http://www.menc.org/
The mission of MENC: The National Association for Music Education is to advance music education by encouraging the study and making of music by all.

http://www.americasings.org/
Founded in 1988, America Sings! Inc. is a non-profit, charitable corporation that creates large, non-competitive choral music festivals and special events featuring school and community singing groups from across the United States. 
                       
http://www.naspaam.org/
The National Association for the Study and Performance of African American Music (NASPAAM) is an organization whose purpose is to further the development and dissemination of African American music through advocacy, education and performance.
                       
http://www.npm.org/index.html
The National Association of Pastoral Musicians fosters the art of musical liturgy.  The members of NPM serve the Catholic Church in the United States as musicians, clergy, liturgists, and other leaders of prayer.

Music Perception and other Research
                       
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/music.html
This site seems to be geared toward kids. However, the site is very informative. It has illustrations the various musical instrument families, Graphic illustration of the parts of the ear and how it functions.
                       
http://cf.hum.uva.nl/mmm/
The Music Cognition Group (MCG) is part of the Department of Musicology and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam. This site contains articles on music performance and perception with sound examples, QuickTime movies, and demonstrations.
                       
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/
The Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics is a multi-disciplinary facility. It features the use of computer-based technology both as an artistic medium and as a research tool.
                       
http://www.ipem.ugent.be/index.html
This research focus of this site is on archiving, interactive multimedia, audio/data-mining, music search and retrieval, music and movement, emotions, and neuroscience.
                       
http://apu.sfn.org/content/Publications/BrainBriefings/knocking.html
The Society for Neuroscience is a nonprofit membership organization of basic scientists and physicians who study the brain and nervous system.

Music Industry
                       
http://www.riaa.com/default.asp
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is the trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry.

http://www.copyright.gov/
Here you will find all our key publications, including informational circulars; application forms for copyright registration; links to the copyright law and to the homepages of other copyright-related organizations.
                       
http://www.ascap.com/index.html
ASCAP is a membership association of over 240,000 U.S. composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers of every kind of music. Through agreements with affiliated international societies, ASCAP also represents hundreds of thousands of music creators worldwide.
                       
http://www.bmi.com/
BMI is an American performing rights organization that represents more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music.
                       
http://www.meiea.org/
The Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association (MEIEA®) is an international organization that was formed in 1979 to bring together educators with leaders of the music and entertainment industries.
                       
http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/law/library/caselist.html
Music copyright infringement suits often involve unknown musicians seeking compensation from financially successful songwriters and performers, for alleged misappropriation of the intellectual content of musical numbers that were never published, or that enjoyed limited circulation

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/index.jsp
Billboard.com is the internet version of Billboard Magazine. It is one of the world’s premier music publications. This site offers charts of U.S. sales, airplay, downloads (legal), and box office grosses.
                       
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/35311/
This site describes its’ self as the world largest market research resource. It is easy to navigate. This site also has an extensive search engine that covers various professions including the global music industry.
                       
http://www.musictank.co.uk/industry_res.htm
Music Tank is based in the United Kingdom. It offers information about: general music industry news & reports, legal issues, market statistics, and music industry events.

http://www.media.mit.edu/research/ResearchPubWeb.pl?ID=20
This site is very informative. It does seem to be very easy to navigate, however it is clearly structured. The efforts of the research at the MIT Media Laboratory is focused on how electronic information (media) overlaps with the everyday physical world.

More Music Industry Links:
                American Federation of Musicians
                American Federation of Musicians Local 802
                Associated Musicians of Greater New York Local 802 AFM