Music

Streaming audio; songs by and about miners, native Americans, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers & cowboys. Genres include country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, blues, gospel & shape note singing. With liner notes.

Streaming performances of all forms of classical music, including performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world.

Streaming audio; emphasis on fusion, world beat, reggae, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing & jazz, etc. Includes Topic, Playasound, Budamusique, Air Mail , Manuiti, Crossing, Lyrichord, Navras, and INEDIT labels.

Streaming audio (CD-quality, 192kbps/MP4), from New World Records, CRI, Albany, Artifact, Cedille, Cold Blue, Deep Listening, Frog Peak, Innova, Lovely, Mode, Mutable, Open Space, Pogus, XI and many other labels.

Cross-searchable database of Alexander Street Press products (American Song, Contemporary World Music, Dance in Video, Jazz Music Library, Opera in Video, Smithsonian Global Sound, etc.)

Streaming audio; Naxos, Albany, BIS, Bridge, Cedille, Celestial Harmonies, Chandos, Col Legno, Da Capo, Danacord, Delos, Gimell, Hänssler, Hungaraton, Music and Arts, Opera Rara, Vanguard Classics, Wergo, and many other labels.

Growing collection of high-quality videos of full-length performances by some of today’s most provocative artists working in dance, theater, music, and other forms that defy categorization.

Streaming audio of the world's musical and aural traditions; with recordings by the Smithsonian Folkways label & archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon, etc.