Subject Guide
David Drexler
he/him
Streaming resources
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Naxos Music LibraryNaxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online offering over 500,000 tracks of Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. It includes the complete BIS, Chandos, Hänssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Naxos, Ondine and selected titles of other leading independent labels, with over 1,000 albums added monthly.
Two streaming resources are available. You can link to them through the Library's online catalog. You may use these resources on or off campus. If you are off campus you will need to provide your email username and password to log in.
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Smithsonian Global SoundSmithsonian Global Sound includes more than 35,000 tracks in the categories of American folk, blues, bluegrass, old time country, American Indian, world, jazz, spoken word & sounds and children’s music. It includes the published recordings owned by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.
Online collections of sound recordings
- Library of Congress Digital Collections -- Audio Recordings
Online recordings at the Library of Congress include music along with interviews, oral histories, and more. - National Jukebox: Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress
Historical sound recordings from 1901 to 1925. - Digital Public Library of America
DPLA includes digitized material from many libraries and archives in the US. To find recordings, search by keyword, then choose "Type: sound." - Europeana Music
Recordings, sheet music, and other music items from the collections of libraries across Europe. - British Library Sounds
Spoken word, theater, oral histories, nature recordings, jazz, classical, and traditional music. - USCB Cylinder Audio Archive
A collection of digitized cylinder recordings available for streaming from the University of California, Santa Barbara - Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection
Digital audio files of cylinders from Syracuse University's Belfer Archive - Association for Cultural Equity/Alan Lomax Archive
Recordings of folk music from around the world, along with photographs, videos, and more. - GlobalJukebox
Thousands of recordings of traditional music, browsable by geography. - radiOM.org
Sponsored by Other Minds, includes selections from broadcasts of "KPFA-FM radio in Berkeley (1949-1995), and concerts and talks produced by Other Minds in San Francisco (1993-2005)."