Research Using the Internet

In addition to the names and/or links to such sites, I'd appreciate any advice on how to navigate, narrow down, focus in, and find what I want.

Does this help?

http://www.festivalfinder.com/

http://www.musicianscontact.com/

Hey, Roberta, why not post a request in the music forum here? I'm certain you'd get a few useful tips there.

What an interesting job!

http://library.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/festival.html

http://musicmoz.org/Resources/Directories/Musician_Resources/

What kind of music does he play????

Try THIS, Roberta.

Otherwise - Pandora might be helpful.

Roberta- I have found that I can find just about anything that I want on "Google". What I like about the site is that it is "tabula rasa". You put in exactly what you want, and it finds it for you. It does not have confusing categories.

Over the years, I have played with other search engines, but I always go back to Google. Google has a nice little tutorial on how to use their site:

http://www.google.com/help/basics.html

Certainly google is fine .... for searchable data(bases).

To search further, you need a bit more :wink:

A mega.search engine may be some good, too, like search.com

And rootster for music/culture.

Roberta wrote:

In addition to the names and/or links to such sites, I'd appreciate any advice on how to navigate, narrow down, focus in, and find what I want.

This is one of the most crucial aspects of getting useful information on-line, and has nothing to do with a sophisticated knowledge of computers or of the internet. All one need remember is that computers are the ultimate idiot savants--if one considers the volume of information available on-line, your computer is as far from ignorant as you can get, as long as it has access to the web. But it is incredibly stupid, this computer/internet.

If you want to learn about the 19th century linguist, adventurer and explorer, and you type "Richard Burton" into a search engine window, you're likely going to be snowed under with thousands of "hits" (in search engine terms, a "hit" is a name for each of the links you find to the subject typed in the search window) for a welsh actor who was associated in the public mind with Elizabeth Taylor. But if you type "Richard Francis Burton" into the search engine window, although you'll maybe get a few hits for the motion picture actor, the likelihood is that you'll get thousands of hits for the man you were actually looking for.

Think of your computer linked to the internet as an incredibly well-informed and ultimately stupid library assistant. Make your searches as subject specific as possible, and you'll get exactly what you want. To continue the example, "Source of the Nile" would probably get you a lot of geographical information about eastern Africa, and perhaps a smidgen of information on those who once sought it. If you were to type "search for the source of the Nile," you 'd get more specific information. If you were to type "Richard Francis Burton+source of the Nile," you'd get very specific information on Burton, Speke and the their attempts to find the source of the Nile.

These are skills you already possess, Raboida, i have complete confidence in you.

Roberta- Don't know if this will help, but it could be a resource:

http://www.klezmershack.com/contacts/klezbands.html

http://www.klezmershack.com/contacts/klezlabels.html

http://www.bh.org.il/Music/links.aspx#Festivals%20of%20Jewish%20Music

OK- I'm trying fer ya!