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Spoken Word Recordings

The resources below feature online streaming audio of speeches, interviews, narratives, and cultural expressions.

Online Sound Recordings at the Library of Congress (Library of Congress)
Recordings from the American Memory project from folk music to oral history interviews.
Internet
AP Images (Accuweather/AP)
Image a database containing the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images...
Campus/Remote
American Rhetoric Speech Bank (American Rhetoric)
Index and full text of over 5000 audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches...
Internet
Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
Delivers the world's diverse cultural expressions via digital media, organized by language or country. Includes narratives organized by language.
Campus/Remote
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. Includes narratives.
Campus/Remote

Music

The resources below feature online streaming music recordings.

Classical Music Library (Alexander Street Press)
Primarily classical music, searchable by composer, artist, conductor, ensemble, instrument, genre, or period.
Campus/Remote
Naxos Music Library (Naxos)
Over 140,000 tracks of classical, jazz, world, and folk music
Campus/Remote
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. Includes narratives.
Campus/Remote
Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
Delivers the world's diverse cultural expressions via digital media, organized by language or country. Includes narratives organized by language.
Campus/Remote
American Song (Alexander Street Press)
American Song is a history database with music from America's past...
Internet
Contemporary World Music (Alexander Street Press)
Contemporary World Music is a vast collection of 50,000 music tracks...
Campus/Remote
Music Online (Alexander Street Press)
Music Online brings together, on a single cross-searchable platform...
Campus/Remote

Audio Recordings are Available for Checkout from JMU Libraries

JMU Libraries owns many CDs, tapes, and records, which can be checked out by JMU students, faculty, and staff. Search LEO Library Catalog and Limit your search by choosing “Music Recording” or “Spoken Recording” from the “Material Type” menu.

We also have an extensive collection of sound effects on various CDs available for checkout.

For more help searching for Music, see http://www.lib.jmu.edu/music/help/leo_music_search.aspx

Additional Tools for Finding Recordings

Do you need music or a spoken word recording that is neither online nor owned by JMU Libraries? You can use WorldCat to search the holdings of over 62 million titles in other libraries, and then submit an Interlibrary Loan for the item(s).

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