These online collections provide 24/7 streaming access to recorded music of all kinds. To access the library's physical collections of audio recordings (more than 165,000 CDs and vinyl discs), use BobCat Books & More.
Music Online: American Music is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.
Classical Music Library is a collection of recorded music with more than 76,000 albums covering the entire Western Classical tradition from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period.
DRAM (Digital Recorded American Music) is a recorded music collection with a particular focus on the American experimental tradition, with recordings from the catalogs of New World Records, Composers Recordings Inc, Deep Listening, Experimental Intermedia, Lovely Music, Mode, Wandelweiser, and other independent record labels.
Ethnographic Sound Archives Online brings together over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, along with supporting field notes and ethnographers’ metadata.
Music Online: Listening is an integrated search engine for the recorded music collections published by Alexander Street Press, including American Music, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, Popular Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound.
Naxos Music Library is a collection of recorded music with over 150,000 albums of classical repertoire, film and TV soundtracks, pop, jazz, and world music.
Popular Music Library is an audio collection of popular music from around the world, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and much more.
The Roulette archive is a digital repository of live audio and video recordings, concert listings, posters, photos, press, and ephemera, all documenting Roulette’s history as a center of avant-garde music and intermedia performance on New York’s “downtown” scene since 1978.
Smithsonian Global Sound is an audible encyclopedia of the world's music and related aural traditions, as documented by recordings from the Smithsonian Folkways catalogue and other sources.
