Streaming audio databases
Currently including 14,200+ tracks, the database plans to grow
to 50,000 tracks. Offerings are a blend of contemporary and traditional
world music recordings, with a focus on contemporary genres such
as fusion and world beat. Labels include: Topic, Playasound, Budamusique,
Air Mail Music, Manuiti, Crossing Records, Lyrichord World Music,
Navras Records, and INEDIT.
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." Content from African American Song
was folded into this database in July 2009.
"...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.”
“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.”
About off-campus access:
Smithsonian Global Sound, Classical Music Library, Contemporary
World Music and American Song are accessible
by both PC and Mac users via the proxy server set up: click
here for details on setting up your proxy server
Naxos, Naxos Jazz, and DRAM are
accessible by both PC and Mac users via the links at the top of
this page; a separate proxy set up is not required.
Last modified:
July 7, 2009
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