20th Century Music Project

Links on Tin Pan Alley, Rag Time, Jazz, Swing, Big Band, Popular Standards, Rock 'n Roll, Blues and Early Folk

Songwriters Hall of Fame

American popular music has always been a combination of sounds rooted in regional cultures all of which influenced each other with equal respect.

Covers Rock, Motown, R&B, Rock & Pop.

Song Writers Hall of Fame - ROCK

1930's - Music in the United States

1950's - Music and Performing Artists of

1960's - Rock and Roll Music of the 1960s

1950's and 1960's - Music of the Civil Rights Movement

1960's - Freedom and Protest Songs of the United States

Music From Historical Periods (Silver Burdett Making Music)

Music Styles & Genres (Silver Burdett Making Music)

Performers (Silver Burdett Making Music)

PBS Jazz for Kids Page

Find your era, and click on it to gather information

PBS for KIDS TIMELINE

1920's Facts and Figures (background information)

This Web site is brought to you from the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the largest library in the world and the nation's library.

Library of Congress: America's Story - Jump back in Time

Brain Pop Movie: 1960's Folk Music

BRAIN POP: Jazz

BRAIN POP: Hip Hop and Rap

BRAIN POP: Blues

U.S. Pop Music Timeline

Facts and Figures of the 1920's

1920s PowerPoint Presentation

1930s PowerPoint Presentation

1940s PowerPoint Presentation

1950s PowerPoint Presentation

1960s PowerPoint Presentation

1970s PowerPoint Presentation

1980s PowerPoint Presentation