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American Memory (Library of Congress)

Digitized collections of primary source materials at the Library of Congress on American history and culture... [more info]
Location: Internet

American Song (Alexander Street Press)

American Song is a history database with music from America's past. [more info]
Location: Campus/Remote

Association for Cultural Equity Research Center

Includes sound recordings, photographs, videos, interviews, radio shows and more. Houses the Alan Lomax Archive of recorded music, dance, and spoken word. [more info]
Location: Internet

ccMixter

ccmixter is devoted to helping you find music, which is liberally licensed under a Creative Commons license so you already have permission to use this music in your video, podcast, school project, personal music player, or where ever… [more info]
Location: Internet

Classical Music Library (Alexander Street Press)

A collection of classical music recordings searchable by composer, artist, conductor, instrument, genre, or period. [more info]
Location: Campus/Remote

Contemporary World Music (Alexander Street Press)

Contemporary World Music is a vast collection of 50,000 music tracks. [more info]
Location: Campus/Remote

DRAM Online (DRAM / New World Records)

On-demand streaming access to CD-quality audio. DRAM contains over 2,300 albums worth of recordings from a distinctive set of 15 independent labels. [more info]

Factiva (Dow Jones)

Gateway to business resources including full text periodicals, news photographs, company reports, and financial data. [more info]
Location: Campus/Remote

Free Music Archive (FMA)

Free Music Archive provides a library of legal audio downloads. [more info]
Location: Internet

Free-Loops.com

Free-Loops.com is a one-stop-shop for free loops and audio clip downloads covered by Creative Commons. [more info]
Location: Internet

Freesound Project

Freesound is a database of Creative Commons licensed sounds and focusses only on sound, not songs. [more info]
Location: Internet

Funky Remixes

Funky Remixes allows users to legally rip, remix, and share music for free. This site features hip hop, rap, rock, and electronic styled remixes. Copyright covered by Creative Commons. [more info]
Location: Internet

Greg Smith Sound Effects Collection (American University)

The Greg Smith Sound Effects Collection contains over 1450 sound effects tracks recorded by Greg Smith. The collection is hosted by University Library at American University.
*Note: the tracks are in a zipped mp3 format. Once you download the zip file to your computer, you will need to un-zip them. Please see the recommended programs on the Greg Smith Collection website. [more info]
Location: Internet

Grove Music Online (Oxford Music Online)

Oxford Music Online is the access point for Grove Music Online and Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford Companion to Music, and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.
[more info]
Location: Campus/Remote

Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a non-profit website offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages. [more info]
Location: Internet

Jamendo

Jamendo is a source for free and legal music downloads covered by Creative Commons licenses. [more info]
Location: Internet

National Jukebox (Library of Congress)

National Jukebox contains over 10,000 historical sound recordings from the Library of Congress music collections. These recordings have been made freely available in streaming format with permission from Sony Music Entertainment. Sound content includes popular music, dance music, opera, jazz, speeches, poetry and humor. [more info]
Location: Internet

Naxos Jazz (Naxos)

Naxos Music Library Jazz offers a mixed selection of jazz legends and contemporary jazz in streaming audio format. [more info]
Location: Campus/Remote

Naxos Music Library (Naxos)

Streaming classical music, World, Folk and Chinese music. Also includes notes on musical works and biographical information on composers or artists. [more info]
Location: Campus/Remote

OAIster (OCLC / Firstsearch)

OAIster contains thousands of multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,000 contributors worldwide. [more info]
Location: Internet

Online Sound Recordings at the Library of Congress (Library of Congress)

Recordings from the American Memory project from folk music to oral history interviews. [more info]
Location: Internet

Opera in Video (Alexander Street Press)

Opera in Video contains 250 of the most important opera performances. [more info]
Location: Campus/Remote

Public Domain Information Project (PD Info)

PD Info provides sheet music and lyrics published in 1922 or earlier. Also contains royalty free music tracks. Fees for sheet music and tracks will not be paid for by JMU Libraries. [more info]
Location: Internet