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- Description
- Smithsonian Global Sound provides over 2900 online audio recordings (over 42,000 tracks) of
American folk, blues, bluegrass, jazz, spoken word, and world music.
It includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label
and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk,
Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by
Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well
as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre
for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.
Smithsonian Global Sound can also be accessed through the Music Online
interface.
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- A detailed Help page is provided.
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- User may create a personal account and sign in to create and edit playlists.
- Dates covered
- Middle Ages to 21st century.
- Updating frequency
- Ongoing.
- Sources
- Audio recordings.
- Super-collection
- • Music Online
- Type of coverage
- Streaming audio.
- Print counterpart or related resources
- None.
- Producer/content provider
- Alexander Street Press
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Alexander Street Press
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