Music (audio files)

"Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943

Approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort ...

America’s Story from America's Library

A web site designed for children and families. The site combines kid-friendly graphics with the incomparable American historical collections of the Library in more than 1,000 stories about our nation’ ...

American Memory from the Library of Congress

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American ...

American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920

A multimedia anthology illustrating the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Included are 334 English- and Yiddish-language ...

Archival Sound Recordings

The aim of the Project is to increase access to the British Library Sound Archive's extensive collections of recordings and supporting materials. This innovative project will: - Make 4000 hours of ...

Biblioteca Virtual de La Rioja

LA RIOJA Virtual Library is a cooperative project of digitization of the bibliographic heritage of La Rioja, whose purpose is to facilitate the preservation and conservation and enable the management ...

California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties

The WPA California Folk Music Project is a multi-format ethnographic field collection that includes sound recordings, still photographs, drawings, and written documents from a variety of European ...

Collect Britain: Putting History in its Place

Collect Britain is the British Library's largest digitisation project to date. The site goes live on May 21st 2003. By summer 2004 you can view and hear a staggering 100,000 images and sounds from our ...

Database of Recorded American Music

Currently, there are over 1,500 CDs (9,800 compositions) in DRAM. The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records. From folk to opera, ...

Documenting the American South

Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. ...

Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection

A multi-format ethnographic field collection of traditional fiddle tunes performed by Henry Reed of Glen Lyn, Virginia. Recorded by folklorist Alan Jabbour in 1966-67, when Reed was over eighty years ...

Global Performing Arts Database (GloPAD)

GloPAD is a development of GloPAC, the Global Performing Arts Consortium, a group of organizations and individuals committed to providing interactive, multimedia and multilingual tools to enable ...

Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies

Features motion pictures, sound recordings, photographs, and original magazine articles. Includes histories of Edison's invention and manufacture of motion pictures and sound recordings, and a special ...

Leopold Stokowski: Making Music Matter

Exhibition about Leopold Stokowski from the collections in the Annenberg Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

Marian Anderson: A Life in Song

This exhibition celebrates the artistic development and musical career of Marian Anderson. Renowned throughout the world for her extraordinary contralto voice, she is also remembered for her dignity ...

Milman Parry Collection of Oral Literature On-Line

Selected audio recordings and text files of oral literature made by Professor Milman Parry of the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in 1933-35 in Yugoslavia and the epic texts collected ...

Omaha Indian Music

Omaha Indian Music features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s. The multiformat ethnographic field collection contains 44 wax cylinder recordings collected by Francis La Flesche and ...

Pacific Northwest Sheet Music Collection

The Pacific Northwest Sheet Music Collection contains music from and about Washington State, the Pacific Northwest and the University. The user can listen to the recording while viewing the musical ...

Sharlot Hall Museum Audio Collection

The Sharlot Hall Museum Oral History collection represents a cross-section of a larger collection of interviews, presentations, speeches and radio programs conducted mainly in Prescott, Arizona from ...

Southern Mosaic: The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip

Collection provides access to the twenty five hours of music from three hundred folk, blues and country performers recorded by John Avery Lomax and Ruby Terrill Lomax in the Spring of 1939 in the ...

Southern Spaces

Using ideas of place and space as organizing principles, Southern Spaces is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that employs emerging technologies to produce innovative scholarship about the ...

The Hoagy Carmichael Collection, 1899-1981

Digitized artifacts pertaining to the life and career of master songwriter Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael (1899-1981), and including music scores, lyric sheets, photographs, correspondences, scrapbooks, ...

The Leonard Bernstein Collection, ca. 1920-1989

The composer, conductor, writer, and teacher Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was one of 20th-century America's most important musical figures. The Leonard Bernstein Collection is one of the largest and ...

The Sylvia and Harry Rebell Digital Collections

The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary: The Sylvia and Harry Rebell Digital Collections contains a number of digitized collections from JTS including bookplates, field recordings, manuscripts ...

The Triangle Factory Fire

This site includes selected information on a terrible and unnecessary tragedy involving the death of many young working women in a New York City sweatshop at the beginning of the 20th century and the ...

Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941

Presents "Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection," an ethnographic field collection that documented the everyday life of residents of the Farm ...