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Find information on academic areas of business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics; resource provides access to major popular and scholarly journals with many full-text articles.
American Song is a database of thousands of streaming songs from the American past on topics that relate to almost every walk of American life, ethnic group, and time period. Includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys; songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and anti-war protests, hymns, funny songs, college songs, and sea shanties. It is a source for American roots music and pre-1960 American popular music, including country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape-note singing. The recordings come from Rounder Records, the Smithsonian Institution, Document Records, and other labels. Part of Alexander Street's Music Online. Some files include liner notes about the recordings. Waveform View allows you to create and share audio clips. Users can also create and share playlists.
A collection of contemporary musical scores (late 20th and 21st century).

Offers access to nearly 140 titles and over 320 volumes of the famed Cambridge History series. The texts provide up to date, scholarly, and authoritative content.
Includes tens of thousands of licensed streamed recordings in all major genres and time periods from medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde. Part of Alexander Street's Music Online. Many files include liner notes about the recordings. Some also contain links to Related Content in Grove Music Online. Updated regularly. Waveform View allows you to create and share audio clips. Users can also create and share playlists.
A collection of musicals scores comprising 51,000 titles ranging from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. More than 4,600 composers are included.
Includes thousands of streaming tracks of contemporary and traditional music from all regions and continents, including fusion, world beat, reggae, African and Bollywood film music, Arab swing and jazz, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, gamelan, and more. Part of Alexander Street's Music Online. Some files include liner notes about the recordings. Updated regularly. Waveform View allows you to create and share audio clips. Users can also create and share playlists.
Digital archive of four Cuban periodicals published by Casa de las Américas: Casa de las Américas (1960–2009), Conjunto (1964–2009), Boletín de Música (1970–2009), Anales del Caribe (1981–2009).
Primary source material from more than sixty collections of field research by prominent ethnomusicologists. The database mostly comprises recordings, but also including field notes, photographs, videos, interviews, and ephemera, digitized by the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive and the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archive. Includes material from Africa; Australia and the Pacific Islands; Central, East, Southeast, and South Asia; Europe; the Middle East; and the Americas.
A full-text encyclopedic scholarly treatment of musical traditions from around the world. Includes more than 700 searchable articles from the original 10-volume print version published in 1997; with audio examples, musical illustrations, photographs, song texts, and notated musical examples.
A database of literal translations and International Phonetic Alphabet transliterations of opera and song texts in foreign languages.
A large collection of streamed jazz recordings, covering major and secondary artists, ensembles, labels, and genres, ranging from historical recordings to musicians performing and recording today. Part of Alexander Street's Music Online. Updated regularly. Waveform View allows you to create and share audio clips. Users can also create and share playlists.
Full Database of performances from the Metropolitan Opera.

Note: Click out to the Met Opera site. Limited to 10 users at a time.
A continuously expanding collection of hundreds of thousands of tracks of streaming music. Users may browse, search and listen remotely. Music Online: Listening contains the following modules: Classical Music Library, Jazz Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Smithsonian Global Sound, American Music, and Popular Music. Many files include liner notes about the recordings. Updated regularly. Waveform View allows you to create and share audio clips. Users can also create and share playlists.
A database of information about theater songs that allows users to search for repertoire using more than 20 parameters (voice type, character age, range, ease for accompanist, descriptive characteristics, etc.) to generate shareable lists. Includes well-known standards as well as lesser known works. It links users to various external sites (including Worldcat) to buy, rent, borrow or download the sheet music and recordings.
Provides streaming audio recordings by more than 32,000 artists from jazz legends to contemporary jazz on over 200 labels, including Blue Note Records, Warner, EMI, and Fantasy. NMLJ provides liner notes for some recordings and users can create personalized playlists.
Presents key performances from the operatic canon featuring world-class singers, conductors, and opera houses, captured on streaming video through staged productions, concert performances, interviews, and documentaries. Some files include liner notes about the recordings. Waveform View allows you to create and share video clips. Users can also create and share playlists.
Provides sophisticated online recommendations to the core scholarship on a subject as determined by experts in the field. Each module constitutes a convenient and comprehensive introduction to the essential body of literature that has shaped research on a topic. At the click of a mouse, you therefore have 24/7 access to expert recommendations that have been rigorously peer-reviewed and vetted to ensure scholarly accuracy and objectivity.

Each OBO subject database allows you to identify the core authors, works, ideas, and debates that have shaped the scholarly conversation so you can find the key literature. All the bibliographic essays have been peer-reviewed, and the specific entries are linked to full-text content available through the web or the UNC Library. The "My OBO" feature also allows you to create a personalized list of citations.
Provides a focused subject-based introduction to the vast literature on music mediated by recognized scholars of the particular areas. Each bibliographic essay is peer-reviewed, and the bibliographic entries are linked to full-text content available through the web or the UNC Library. "My OBO" also allows you to create a personalized list of citations.
Provides access to millions of articles in the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 2000, many of which are not in English.
Streaming film platform curated by Grasshopperfilms and includes fictional narrative, shorts, documentary and educational films on a wide array of humanities, arts, global cultures and social justice topics.

Note: Click and play; Onyen login and password required
RIdIM promotes, supports and conducts worldwide cataloging and research products, workshops and conferences dealing with visual culture related to music, dance, and the dramatic arts.
A comprehensive, international bibliography of music literature featuring content from the late 18th century through the present. Updated monthly, the database includes coverage of relevant articles from more than 10,000 journals, many of which are not specifically devoted to music. RILM includes more than 875,000 records in 143 languages from 178 countries, adding over 52,000 new records every year. Sound recordings and motion pictures that present the results of scholarly research or fieldwork are also included.
A retrospective full text collection of more than 100 jazz periodicals from the 1910s to the 1990s, including such standard works as Downbeat and Record Research. Covers many short run and rare titles that are hard to find elsewhere.
Complementing RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text this database includes 105 full-text titles dealing with musical life in world capitals, and several monumental journals including Musical America until 1922, Le Guide musical (Brussels, 1855-1919), the Neue Berliner Musikzeitung (Berlin, 1847-1896) and early musicology periodicals.
Provides full-text access to the musical press from 1760 to 1966. From primary sources, covers musical life in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, comprising many complete runs pieced together from different collections. Updated twice a year.
Aims to document extant musical primary resources. While mainly consisting of manuscripts from between the years 1600 and 1850, the database also includes printed music, theoretical writings and libretti. Older and newer materials are added regularly. Items are housed in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections around the world, and sources that are now lost are not documented in RISM.
The backfile of Rolling Stone covers the magazine from its launch in 1967 to the present. It soon became a leading vehicle for rock and popular music journalism, shaping and chronicling new trends and movements. From the 1980s, coverage expanded to encompass more entertainment topics, such as film and television, making it a leading resource for contemporary reporting and reviews pertaining to wider popular culture.
This archive consists of the full run of VIBE magazine, the U.S. magazine of record for hip-hop culture from 1993–2014. Founded by Quincy Jones, VIBE offered influential reporting and news about rap, hip-hop, and R&B music.
Search across Contemporary World Music and Smithsonian Global Sound recordings from Alexander Street Press. It is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions in diverse musical forms. Some files include liner notes about the recordings. Waveform View allows you to create and share audio clips. Users can also create and share playlists.

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