African American Song: African American Song is the first online resource to document 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. It also some 16,000 tracks of great historical recordings from Document Records.
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Biography Resource Center: A comprehensive database of more than 200,000 people throughout history, across all disciplines and subject areas - including musicians. Search for people - from both current and historic eras - based on name, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender. |
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Classical Music Library: Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning. It contains a growing collection of 50,000-plus tracks for listening, supplemented by extensive reference materials. The database includes recordings of music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers.
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Smithsonian Global Sound: Produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, this database is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. It includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded for the International Library of African Music, as well as material collected by recordists from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology on the South Asian subcontinent.
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