Streaming Audio
- American Song [Alexander Street] 1700s-1960 This link opens in a new window Includes songs by and about miners, native Americans, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers & cowboys. Genres include country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, blues, gospel & shape note singing. Liner notes are included.
- DRAM This link opens in a new windowIncludes New World Records (see below) Streaming audio (CD-quality, 192kbps/MP4), from New World Records, CRI, Albany, Artifact, Cedille, Cold Blue, Deep Listening, Frog Peak, Innova, Lovely, Mode, Mutable, Open Space, Pogus, and XI Labels.
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new windowPlease LOGOFF when you have finished using this database to maximize # of users licenses. Streaming audio; Naxos, Albany, BIS, Bridge, Cedille, Celestial Harmonies, Chandos, Col Legno, Da Capo, Danacord, Delos, Gimell, Hänssler, Hungaraton, Music and Arts, Opera Rara, Vanguard Classics, Wergo, and many other labels.
- Smithsonian Global Sound [Alexander Street] This link opens in a new windowStreaming audio of the world's musical and aural traditions; includes published recordings by the Smithsonian Folkways label & archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon, etc.
Index to first 100 New World records
- Index to the New World Recorded Anthology of American music : a user's guide to the initial one hundred records byCall Number: SC Josten Reference / ML156.9 .D38"Index to genres and performing media," pp. 207-229 (e.g., Blues, Jazz, etc.)
"Chronological index," pp. 233-235.
e.g.,
- White spirituals from The Sacred HarpCall Number: SC Josten CD X CH LOM2 1990This album is not approved for streaming through DRAM.
Alexander Street's Music Online
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NOTE: Music Online will search ALL the Smith subscription streaming Alexander Street audio/video/full text databases EXCEPT DRAM, Naxos Music Library, Naxos Spoken Word Library , Theatre in Video, and the BBC Television Shakespeare.