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African American Song
African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others.

American Song
American Song 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
Classical Music Library is a streaming audio server that hosts over 10,000 recordings from the collections of more than 20 independent classical music labels. These recordings range from operas to symphonies to chamber music as well as many contemporary composers.

Contemporary World Music
Contemporary World Music delivers 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.

Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is the world’s largest classical music listening service, designed for students, instructors, library patrons, and orchestra members. The collection includes over 288,000 tracks of music and is continually growing.

Naxos Music Library Jazz
Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collection of jazz music available online. It offers close to 22,600 tracks of jazz from over 2,300 albums, with more than 500 artists represented.

Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Smithsonian Global Sound is the largest collection of traditional, folk and world music available for streaming on the Internet. These recordings are taken from the Folkways collection as well as the International Library of African Music and the Archive Research Center for Ethnomusicology.