Recorded Music Databases and Websites
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Archive of Popular American MusicA digital collection of late 19th & early 20th century sheet music and recordings that are in the public domain anda subset of UCLA Music Library's Archive of Popular Music, which covers the history of popular music in the US from 1790-present.
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British Library Sound ArchiveA small selection of recordings held in the British Library
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Classical NetFeatures more than 2800 CD reviews, as well as 6000 files and over 4000 links to other classical music web sites.
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Southern Mosaic The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording TripA multiformat ethnographic field collection that includes nearly 700 sound recordings, as well as fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502-mile trip through the southern United States.
World Music Databases & Websites
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American Choral MusicA collaboration of the the Library of Congress and the American Choral Directors Association, provides access to significant choral music in the public domain by the leading American composers of the time.
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Echoes of AfricaThis site concentrates on the traditional musical instruments of Africa. Descriptions are brief, some sections include photographs of instruments.
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Fort Valley Music FestivalsConsists of approximately one hundred sound recordings of African-American musicians, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College.
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Omaha Indian MusicThis site features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s.
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Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new windowPublished recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.