Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, Volume I 

Volume I is a crucial resource for researchers exploring different musical forms, histories, and cultures, providing valuable insights into the ways in which and recordings shapes and reflects various societies. 

• Music from 169 countries from around the world 
• Over 1,000 distinct genres and sub-genres available 
• Over 1,400 cultural groups represented 
• Over 450 languages represented 
• Data on 100,000s of artists and ensembles 

Volume I contains the following curated collections allowing for a deep and diverse exploration of different musical forms, histories, and culture: American Institute for Indian Studies, Archive and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, Collector Records, Cook Records, Dyer-Bennet Records, Fast Folk Musical Magazine, Folkways Records, International Library of African Music, Mickey Hart Collection, Monitor Records, M.O.R.E. Records, Paredon Records, Smithsonian Folkways Special Series. 

It provides support for Unique thematic collections: 

• World music archives offering a cultural soundtrack that illuminates the history and literature of nations and peoples from every continent. 
• Topics in American history come alive with music such as with ballads from the American Revolution, War of 1812, or the American Civil War; freedom and protest songs from the Civil Rights era; songs from the Slave Coast; Canada's history in song, and much more. 
• Firsthand approaches to literature include biography, memoir, drama, and poetry. Works by Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Dubois, Mahalia Jackson, Sterling Brown, and others are shared by the authors themselves, while additional works such as the ancient Greek tragedies and those by Ralph Waldo Emerson are performed by others. 
• An extensively developed children's collection helps bring the world to kids from kindergarten through middle school, including a plethora of counting games, childhood songs, holiday tunes, stories, and sing-alongs from around the world. 

Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, Volume II (New!)

Volume II continues our collaboration with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, expanding the remarkable audio archive to a wider array of American folk, blues, soul, jazz, and historic recordings, as well as a broad range of world music spanning Islamic, Central Asian, Latin and more. This essential streaming audio collection is a valuable resource for those interested in the study of music and its cultural significance. 

• Expands on cornerstone labels: Folkways Records and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings as well as Monitor Records and Cook Records

Highlighted Albums: Black Cowboys, Cruzando Borders, and Pacific Northwest Medicine Songs of the Four Seasons from Smithsonian Folkways

• Introduces new labels dedicated to preserving and promoting rich and traditional music:  Arhoolie Records, Western Jubilee Recording Company, Folk-Legacy Record

Highlighted Albums: Spirit of the Black Territory Bands, First Queen of Tejano Music, Huayno Music Of Peru, and Louisiana Hot Sauce, Creole Style from Arhoolie Records

• Includes labels dedicated to marginalized voices and diverse musical heritage: UNESCO Collection of Traditional Music, Minority Owned Record Enterprises (MORE), Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE)

Highlighted Albums: Bhungar Khan and Music of Goa from Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE)

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