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Web Music and Video
African American Song
- 16,000 recordings documenting the history of African American music from the 1890s through 1970s. Genres include blues, folk song, jazz, musicals for the stage and screen, sacred, and spoken word.
- 14,000 songs relating to the history of the United States of America, including the civil rights movement, political campaigns, prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, cowboys and more.
- 50,000 unabridged recordings of classical repertoire from the medieval through contemporary periods.
- Printed scores to 1,700 classical works in downloadable PDF format (no audio).
- 9,000 recordings of reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Database of Recorded American Music
- 1,500 full-length albums from the New World Records catalog, representing the vast diversity of American music, together with CRI, Innova, Mutable, Pogus, XI and other labels specializing in contemporary experimental music.
- 240,000 recordings of classical, jazz, pop, rock, and world music from the Naxos, Bis, Bridge, Chandos, CPO, Gimell, Vanguard, Vox, Wergo, and other labels.
- 26,000 recordings from the catalogs of Fantasy and other jazz labels.
- Traditional music from around the world from the catalogs of Smithsonian Folkways and affiliated labels.
- Full-length filmed performances of over 250 plays by Aeschylus, Beckett, Ibsen, Moliere, O'Neill, Pinter, Shakespeare, and many other classical and modern writers.
