Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world’s musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.
Archive for May, 2006
Smithsonian Global Sound
Posted in 2006-07, Arts & Humanities on May 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
African American Song
Posted in 2006-07, Arts & Humanities on May 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.This release features some 16,000 tracks of great historical recordings from Document Records. This [...]