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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.

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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 [...]

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Black Studies Center
Includes the Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience (can pull this out directly by searching on this title) as well as the full backfile of the Chicago Defender (1910 – 1975). Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.It [...]

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