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Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
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Description:
A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. Includes the published 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.
Browse by country, genre, cultural group, language, instrument, artist, ensemble, album, or label. Create your own playlsts. [
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Coverage:
1890 - present
Resource Type:
Streaming Audio Collection
Location:
Campus/Remote
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No. of Simultaneous Users:
Unrestricted
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Types of information you can find with this resource:
Audio (Music, Spoken word , etc.)
Primary Sources
Streaming Media
Subjects covered by this resource:
A - Z (Index)
Africa, Asia, Middle East
Africana Studies
Anthropology
Audio
Foreign Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
History
Music
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