Music Online: Listening Collection

Music Online: Listening Collection contains over 10 million streaming audio tracks in a wide variety of musical genres, including classical, jazz, world, folk, rock, blues, gospel, R&B, the Great American Songbook, and more. The collection is especially strong in American music but also includes music from over 169 countries and 1000 cultural groups. The records are sourced from:

• EMI: Includes selections from the Blue Note, Virgin Classics, Angel Records, Capitol Records, Chrysalis, and Narada labels.
• Universal: Includes selections from the Verve, Motown, A&M, Decca, Polygram, MCA and Island Def Jam labels.
• Smithsonian: Includes the entire output of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, Folkways Records, Cook Records, Dyer-Bennet Records, Fast Folk, Monitor Records, and Paredon Records.
• American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
• International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University in South Africa
• Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE) in India

Music Online: Listening Collection includes the following sub-collections:

• American Music
• Classical Music Library
• Contemporary World Music
• Jazz Music Library
• Popular Music Library
• Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries

Music Online: Listening Collection may be cross-searched with other performing arts collections in ProQuest One Performing Arts (Alexander Street).