Streaming audio databases
Currently streaming over 12,000 tracks, American Song "...include[s]
songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves,
children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the
songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary
War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more....It encompasses
the great American musical genres including country, folk, bluegrass,
Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note
singing - combined with powerful recordings by artists such as
Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Si Kahn, Lead Belly,
Sleepy LaBeef, the New Lost City Ramblers, Otis Clay, Eddy "The
Chief" Clearwater, Nanci Griffith, The Lilly Brothers, Merle
Travis, and many others."
"...a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural
traditions...an unprecedented variety of online resources that
support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical
forms."
“ …the most comprehensive collection of classical music
available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and
Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music,
Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.”
“…one of the most comprehensive collections of Jazz
music available online. It includes thousands of titles of the Fantasy
catalogue and Naxos Jazz.”
Please note: When you finish using Naxos
Music Library and Naxos Jazz click the LOGOUT
button at the upper right corner of the screen. This will allow
access for another listener.
“The world's largest multi-label database of Classical music
recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Coverage of
repertoire is increasing as new labels are added, with a particular
focus on contemporary music and women composers.”
“The basis for the collection is the diverse catalogue of
American music recordings by New World Records; other labels currently
represented in the Database include CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille,
XI, Pogus, Deep Listening and Mutable.”
"African American Song is the first online resource to document
the history of African American music in an online music listening
service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such
as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among
others."
About off-campus access:
[click
here for details on setting up your proxy server]
SULAIR has been experiencing incompatibility issues between the
proxy access system and various commercial databases. Programmers
hope to resolve these issues soon. Currently (as of November 2005):
Classical Music Library is accessible to both PC and Mac users;
Naxos Music Library and Naxos Jazz are accessible to PC users only;
DRAM is not yet accessible from off-campus locations.
Last modified:
January 9, 2008
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