Listen Online
Online Listening Reserves
Listening assignments for students enrolled in courses.
African American Song
African American Song documents 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. Currently features 16,000 tracks of historical recordings.
American Song
A history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Currently (March 2008) 835 albums, equaling 14,232 tracks.
Classical Music Library
Classical music from major labels.
DRAM
A scholarly resource of recordings, liner notes, and essays from New World Records, Composer's Recordings Inc., Albany, Çedille, and several other important lables stressing contemporary music.
Naxos Music Library
Classical music from Naxos and other major labels.
Global Music Archive
The Global Music Archives’s primary mission is to provide access to sound recordings and images of indigenous music from communities in Africa and the Americas. The first database in a series of databases is now available: the Digital Collection of East African Recordings which consists of over 2,000 discrete musical performances recorded by an East African ethnomusicologist, Centurio Balikoowa.
Naxos Music Library Jazz
Jazz from major lables.
Smithsonian Global Sound
Smithsonian Folkways recordings of world music.
Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican American Music
Digitized from "largest repository of Mexican and Mexican-American vernacular recordings in existence". Fifty seconds of any recording is available. For further access apply to the UCLA Digital Library.
Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
Audio from the turn of the 20th century digitized from the earliest commercial sound recording format, cylinders. Popular music, early jazz and blues, opera and classical music. From University of California, Santa Barbara, Davidson Library, Department of Special Collections.
About Access to these Services
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