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Established in 1998 and on the web for more than 25 years!
Helping to make American music come alive again!
The Center for American Music Preservation (CAMP) was established in 1998 to help preserve historical American music
from the past so it will survive into the future.
The focus has been on American vocal music (classical, folk, popular) from the 18th century to the 20th century.
Some instrumental music is also included.
Are you a musician, historian, student, teacher, or someone interested in American music?
Your support is needed to help keep this free educational website available.
Please consider ordering the music from, AMERICAN PLACES - Musical Travels below with enjoyable piano music from several centuries.
If you are unable to offer any finacnial support, please mention this website in your class teaching or elsewhere where appropriate.
Help celebrate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution!Submit your article for a possible cash award -- here
Here are six major topic areas on this CAMP website:No. 1: COMMUNAL FOLK MUSIC - Music of the American Shakers - Resources and Recordings
No. 2: CLASSICAL MUSIC - American Composers: From The Colonial Era To Our TimeNo. 3: CHORAL MUSIC - Singing Stoughton - home of America's Oldest Choral Society, founded in 1786
No. 4: FILM MUSIC - Film Music Review e-zine
No. 5: POPULAR MUSIC - Popular Songs, 1860s-1960s
No. 6: RECORDED MUSIC - American Music Recordings Collection (AMRC)
Help Celebrate the 250th Anniversary of The American Revolution and Beyond!
Do you have an article to submit about vocal music from 18th century America?
The time period would from 1775 to 1800.
There will be several possible cash prizes for the best articles submitted and the winning articles will be posted on the CAMP website.
Your article must be clearly readable on Word with footnotes clearly readable.
Audio or video sample links are possible but are not required.
Deadline for submitting your article is April 15, 2026.
To contact about submitting your article, write to CAMP 250 AR
Your support is needed to help support the Center for American Music Preservation (CAMP) in itsongoing work to provide information and recordings of music from earlier America.
Please consider ordering music from any of these three limited edition CDs
with American classical, folk or popular songs:Classical music
AMERICAN PLACES - Musical Travels
Gentle Words - including music by Shakers and excerpt from interview with composer, Aaron Copland
Popular songs
"It's Magic" - One Hundredth Birthday Celebration of songwriter, Sammy Cahn
See the list of 60 music collections by musicologist, Roger Lee Hall
available in
"Yankee Doodle" - American Patriotic Song Quartet
New ebooks by Roger Lee Hall
Now available in a new expanded 2nd illustrated edition with audio of the title song available as a free bonus
"FREE AS THE BREEZE" - A Songwriter's Joys and Sorrows (2025)
Read about the songs which made an impact on his life and music career illustrated with many pictures
"GENTLE PEACE" - Songs For Survival (2023)
Read about the early promotion of Elvis in Cleveland in 1955
and also in 1956 with his TV appearances
and first movie, LOVE ME TENDER,
in an ebook with over 100 illustrations, some never before shown
"Good Rockin' Tonight" - Elvis Presley, Bill Randle and The Rise of a Music Legend (2025)
See the complete list of memoirs by Roger Lee Hall at
Music Webinars Presented in 2026 by Roger Lee Hall, CAMP Director
Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the genesis of a screen legend and
the 70th anniversary of the New York TV debut of the original KING KONG in 1956!'A Century of King Kong: Examining a Cinematic Legacy' Webinar
2 March 2026
To read about it and sign up -- go here
Learn about the National 1956 TV debut!
'Bill Randle, Elvis Presley & the Night That Changed Rock Forever' Webinar
28 January 2026
Read about it -- here
"My Shaker Home" - A Celebration of Shaker Music in Our Time
Read about music by Shaker Sisters from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries -- click here
Treasures of Earlier American Music
Music refines the taste, purifies the heart,
and elevates our nature.
It does more:
it soothes in sorrow, tranquillizes in passion,
and wears away the irritabilities of life.
It intensifies love,
it fires the patriotism,
and makes the altar of our devotion burn
with a purer, holier flame.--W.W. Hall, M.D.
Hall's Journal of Health for 1862To inquire about joining the T.E.A.M. as a historian, musician, researcher, music student, interested individual -- click here
See the T.E.A.M. recordings available -- click here
Click the links to go to these topics on this website
Classical MusicAmerican Music Recordings Collection (AMRC)
Shaker Music
Shaker Music - Resources and Research
Popular Songs
Bravo, Bing! (Bing Crosby)
Early Elvis (Elvis Presley)
Sammy Cahn (Oscar-winning lyricist)
Music in Old New England
Singing Stoughton and the Oldest Choral Society in the U.S.A.
Music in American Films
Other Links:
American Music Timeline, Part One - 1620-1818American Music Timeline, Part Two - 1820-1920
Essential American Recordings Survey (EARS), 1759-1959
PineTree Music Music Editions (PTME)
A Few Other Recommended Websites
International Center For American Music (ICAMus)- Aloma Bardi, Founder/President
ICAMus - The International Center for American Music promotes knowledge and appreciation of American music and music making in the US.
The Center maintains an inclusive orientation towards musical life in the United States, from its beginning to contemporary time.Significant attention is devoted to Early American Music.
The Organization focuses on the study of musical sources, and on the unity and integration of research, teaching,
performance, and experimentation.
Society for American Music (SAM) - Web Resources
The mission of the Society for American Music (SAM) is to stimulate the appreciation, performance, creation and study
of American musics of all eras and in all their diversity, including the full range of activities and institutions associated
with these musics throughout the world.
Contact for CAMP
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