Smithsonian Global Sound
Rutgers Restricted
Access
Access
Connection note
Cookies must be enabled.
After clicking the connect button, you can Search, Browse or access Playlists.
Browser required
Internet Explorer 7+, Netscape 8+, Firefox 1+, Safari 2+
Plugins required
Adobe Flash Player, Windows Media Player
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.
Help
A detailed Help page is provided.
A FAQ page also is provided.
User tools and features
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
Type of coverage
Streaming audio.
Print counterpart or
related resources
None.
Producer/content provider
Alexander Street Press
Vendor/electronic presentation provider
Alexander Street Press
Core Subject(s)
Supplementary Subject(s)