The Academy of American Poets

The Academy of American Poets, fundada en 1934, tiene en Poets.org un portal de referencia en Literatura que ya quisiera más de uno. "The Academy of American Poets was founded in 1934 to support American poets at all stages of their careers and to foster the appreciation of contemporary poetry. To fulfill this mission, the Academy administers a wide variety of programs, including National Poetry Month (April), the largest literary celebration in the world; online educational resources providing free poetry lesson plans for high school teachers; the Poetry Audio Archive, a collection of over 700 recordings dating back to the 1960s; and Poets.org, our award-winning website which provides a wealth of content on contemporary American poetry and receives a million unique users each month.
The Academy also conducts High School Poetry Workshops for New York City students and publishes the biannual journal, American Poet. In addition, the Academy administers the most important collection of poetry awards in the United States. These awards include the Wallace Stevens Award, the Academy Fellowship, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the James Laughlin Award, the Walt Whitman Award, the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award, the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, and student prizes at nearly 200 colleges and universities nationwide." (Tomado de http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/1.)

Escritores.org

"¿Qué es Escritores.org ?
Es una Web creada en 1996 que ofrece recursos para escritores. Ha sido creada y es mantenida por Internet Aplicacions s.l.

La página que necesitan todos los que se dedican a la creación literaria.
I WORLD

No basta para convertirse en un as de la literatura, pero esta página puede ser un buen apoyo... EL PAÍS (España)

Todo lo relacionado con el mundo de las letras... CD.WEB"

En cualquier caso, un sitio interesante y necesario.

The Red Hot Jazz Archive

"The music called Jazz was born sometime around 1895 in New Orleans. It combined elements of Ragtime, marching band music and Blues. What differentiated Jazz from these earlier styles was the widespread use of improvisation, often by more than one player at a time. Jazz represented a break from Western musical traditions, where the composer wrote a piece of music on paper and the musicians then tried their best to play exactly what was in the score. In a Jazz piece, the song is often just a starting point or frame of reference for the musicians to improvise around. The song might have been a popular ditty or blues that they didn't compose, but by the time they were finished with it they had composed a new piece that often bore little resemblance to the original song. Many of these virtuoso musicians were not good sight readers and some could not read music at all, nevertheless their playing thrilled audiences and the spontaneous music they created captured a joy and sense of adventure that was an exciting and radical departure from the music of that time. The first Jazz was played by African-American and Creole musicians in New Orleans. The cornet player, Buddy Bolden is generally considered to be the first real Jazz musician. Other early players included Freddie Keppard, Bunk Johnson and Clarence Williams. Although these musicians names are unknown to most people, then and now, their ideas are still being elaborated on to this day. Most of these men could not make a living with their music and were forced to work menial jobs to get by. The second wave of New Orleans Jazz musicians like Joe "King" Oliver, Kid Ory and Jelly Roll Morton formed small bands that took the music of these older men and increased the complexity and dynamic of their music, as well as gaining greater commercial success. This music became known as "Hot Jazz", because of the often breakneck speeds and amazing improvised polyphony that these bands produced. A young virtuoso cornet player named Louis Armstrong was discovered in New Orleans by King Oliver. Armstrong soon grew to become the greatest Jazz musician of his era and eventually one of the biggest stars in the world. The impact of Armstrong and other Jazz musicians altered the course of both popular and Classical music. African-American musical styles became the dominant force in 20th century music.

The Red Hot Archive is a place to study and enjoy the music of these early "Jazzmen". Due to recent advances in technology it is now possible to broadcast text, music and pictures around the world via the Internet. This site is an experiment in using this new multimedia technology. We hope it will combine the best of books and audio recordings, into valuable and enjoyable tools for appreciating this music and the men and women who produced it. This site is a work in progress and will continue to grow as more recordings and writings are added to the archive. Submissions, suggestions and corrections are welcome.

Scott Alexander"

La más completa historia del jazz que he podido encontrar en Internet. El sitio está en inglés. Sólo invito a que se vea.

Dialnet

Liderado por la Universidad de la Rioja es un portal de difusión de la producción científica hispana, que contiene artículos de revistas y monografías colectivas, permitiendo el acceso a los textos completos de un número importante de los mismos.

Ofrece servicios gratuitos de alertas informativas, para lo que es preciso registrarse como usuario.

Arce, Asociación de Revistas Culturales de España.

"La Asociación de Editores de Revistas Culturales de España (ARCE) se constituye en el año 1983 por iniciativa de los propios editores de revistas de cultura, con el propósito de poner en común los recursos e instrumentos necesarios para la promoción de estos proyectos culturales, y ante la necesidad de definir acciones comunes para el colectivo de editores y el público al que van dirigidas estas publicaciones. En sus 20 años de existencia se han ido incorporando nuevas revistas de pensamiento y cultura, lo que ha contribuido a fortalecer y desarrollar proyectos de interés común, intensificar las diferentes acciones de la Asociación y desarrollar un papel cada vez más activo en la promoción de estas publicaciones, dentro y fuera de España.

En la actualidad ARCE agrupa a las más importantes revistas de pensamiento y cultura editadas en España, cubriendo un amplio abanico temático desde la literatura y el arte, hasta las ciencias sociales y el pensamiento político, pasando por la arquitectura, el diseño, la fotografía, las artes escénicas, la música y las demás formas de creación y expresión cultural.
Este espacio en Internet, creado por ARCE, posee los contenidos culturales más interesantes e importantes editados por las revistas culturales españolas, y se constituye en un espacio privilegiado en la web para la difusión y proyección de la cultura española, para el debate cultural abierto a la participación de los lectores y autores.

Este portal, finalmente, supone la consolidación de un punto de información y reflexión cultural que crea un lugar de referencia en la red y un punto de encuentro entre los autores, editores y lectores de estas publicaciones. Las revistas culturales responden a una necesidad de expresión y de intervención en el debate de las ideas, desde su vocación de independientes profundizan, alejadas de la invasión de información inmediata, erosionando el hoy y reflejando el ahora que vivimos."