Databases

Audio database of music from America’s past.

An online classical music collection of more than 10,000 tracks.

Audio database of music from all regions of every continent.

2,000 hours of previously unpublished field recordings from around the world.

Comprehensive collection of streaming jazz.

All of the music, dance, theater and film products from Alexander Street searchable on one platform.

Comprehensive collection of classical music offering over 705,700 tracks of Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.

Hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music from around the world.

Collection of digitized primary sources originally produced by the Race Relations Department at Fisk University. The Race Relations Department was an influential think tank offering a forum for discussion and research on racial topics. Subjects addressed include poverty and inequality, segregation, class, housing, employment, education, and government policy.

The collection includes over 100 hours of audio recordings of speeches given by prominent members of the Civil Rights movement, surveys, case studies, photographs, and scrapbooks. The physical documents were digitized from the archives of the Race Relations Department of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, housed at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans.

Dates covered: 1943-1970.

An aural encyclopedia of the world’s music traditions, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Thousands of examples of the world’s music, dance and other expressive behavior. All of the data and many of the analyses of research into the expressive arts carried out under the direction of Alan Lomax and the anthropologist Conrad Arensberg from 1960 to 1995 at Columbia University and Hunter College.