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Africa South of the Sahara
Serves as a guide to Internet resources on African cultures and peoples. Sites are organized by country and topic. [more info]
African American Song (Alexander Street Press)
African American Song has merged with American Song. Please begin accessing this information through American Song or Music Online. This access point will expire. 16,000 tracks of historical blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narrative recordings from the first half of the 20th century. [more info]
Campus/Remote
American Song (Alexander Street Press)
American Song is a history database with music from America's past... [more info]
Internet
Encarta Africana (Microsoft Corp.)
A multimedia encyclopedia of Africans and people of African descent ... [more info]
Reference Desk
National Museum of African Art
Provides online exhibits of traditional and modern African art. Also links to Radio Africa, which provides streaming audio from the Smithsonian’s Global Sound collection. [more info]
Naxos Music Library (Naxos)
Streaming classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music... [more info]
Campus/Remote
Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
The world's musical and aural traditions, in streaming audio... [more info]
Campus/Remote

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