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A Guide to Finding Audio at JMU
See JMU Librarians' top recommendations for finding audio ... [more info]
Ad Council
Explore public service advertisement (PSA) campaigns from the Ad Council, a leading producer of PSAs and the creator of such slogans as "Friends don't let friends drive drunk" and "A mind is a terrible thing to waste." [more info]
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]
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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]
Internet
American Rhetoric Speech Bank (American Rhetoric)
Index and full text of over 5000 audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches... [more info]
Internet
American Song (Alexander Street Press)
American Song is a history database with music from America's past... [more info]
Internet
AP Images (Accuweather/AP)
Image a database containing the Associated Press's current year's photo report and a selection of images... [more info]
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Classical Music Library (Alexander Street Press)
A collection of classical music recordings searchable by... [more info]
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Contemporary World Music (Alexander Street Press)
Contemporary World Music is a vast collection of 50,000 music tracks... [more info]
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Dow Jones Factiva
Gateway to business resources including full text of periodicals, news photographs, company reports... [more info]
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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]
Encarta Africana (Microsoft Corp.)
A multimedia encyclopedia of Africans and people of African descent ... [more info]
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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online (Alexander Street Press)
Full-text encyclopedia articles about music traditions, genres, practices, and performances in world regions... [more info]
Internet
Grove Music Online (Oxford University Press)
Several encyclopedias-in-one with articles and cross references covering music and musicians worldwide... [more info]
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Grove Music Online - retired entry (Oxford University Press)
Please use the updated site here. An encyclopedia with articles and cross references covering music and musicians worldwide... [more info]
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In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives (Alexander Street Press)
Search letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials... [more info]
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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]
Internet
Jazz Music Online (Alexander Street Press)
Jazz Music Library is very comprehensive with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres... [more info]
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LEO Library Catalog (JMU)
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Internet
Music Online (Alexander Street Press)
Music Online brings together, on a single cross-searchable platform... [more info]
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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]
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OAIster (OCLC)
OAIster contains thousands of multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,000 contributors worldwide... [more info]
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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]
Internet
Opera in Video (Alexander Street Press)
Opera in Video contains 250 of the most important opera performances... [more info]
Campus/Remote, ML1700 .O6 Internet
Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street Press)
The world's musical and aural traditions, in streaming audio... [more info]
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Theatre in Video (Alexander Street Press)
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays... [more info]
Campus/Remote, PN1657 .T4 Internet
WorldCat (OCLC)
Catalog of over 62 million titles cataloged by libraries worldwide ... [more info]
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