Jazz Databases
African American Music Reference contains more than three thousand essays and images that offer coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
American Song contains thousands of tracks that allow 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 are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. Content from African American Song is now a part of American Song.
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Contemporary World Music contains tens of thousands of tracks that deliver the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music -- Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Jazz Music Library contains thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. The collection includes over ten thousand albums and over one hundred thirty thousand tracks licensed from legendary record labels, including Audiophile, Concord Jazz, Contemporary Records, Fantasy, Jazzology, Milestone, Nessa Records, Original Jazz Classics, Pablo, and Prestige.
Learn about musicians, music styles, music terms, and instruments. Explore musician biographies by time period, musical style, geographical area, and more. Includes links to websites containing music, images, and sounds.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides users with a variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. The database includes tens of thousands of individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds.
