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Collection of streaming files totalling over 50,000 songs. American Song includes contemporary folk/roots/Americana music, early rock & roll, soul, funk, R&B, doo-wop, boogie-woogie, early Biograph recordings, blues, jazz, gospel, spirituals, disco, blues-rock, reggae, bluegrass, country, rockabilly, and honky-tonk. Also includes African American Song, documenting the history of African American music through its collection of jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives. To restrict you results in the American Song interface to African American content: 1. Browse by Genre - there is a broad category called "African American Music," which restricts your results, and which you can narrow further by sub-genre, ensemble, artist, etc.; 2. Browse by Album/Track - there is a "restrict results to African American content only" checkbox on the upper right hand corner of both browses.
Search American Song, Classical Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound in one interface through Music Online (Alexander Street Press).
This resource is mobile-enabled
Mobile App Click here for the mobile app
Wherever you see the “send to mobile” icon 
, you are able to obtain a "shortlink" to enable playback on your mobile device.
Music Online provides several ways to send a shortlink to your mobile device:
- We can send a shortlink as a text SMS message to your device.
- We can email a shortlink to a specific address which you can then pick up on your device
- You can enter a shortlink directly into your mobile device's web browser
- On supported devices, you can also have your device read a special barcode, or QR-Code, directly from your computer screen.
Streaming service is currently available for:
- Apple iPhone on 3G network or better
- Mobile Device with Android OS
Access Information Resource is available on-campus or off-campus via EZProxy; Click the resource name to access it or here for off-campus instructions.
Vendor Name Alexander Street Press
Special Usage Notes
For listening in the Fine Arts Library, you will need to check out headphones from the Media Center. Personal headphones may also be used and will be required for listening in other campus libraries. Download and purchase of recordings require the user to create an account and pay with appropriate credit; this activity is best done from home computers.
Research Guides African American Resources, American Literature, 20th Century, Music
Description:
Collection of streaming files totalling over 50,000 songs. American Song includes contemporary folk/roots/Americana music, early rock & roll, soul, funk, R&B, doo-wop, boogie-woogie, early Biograph recordings, blues, jazz, gospel, spirituals, disco, blues-rock, reggae, bluegrass, country, rockabilly, and honky-tonk. Also includes African American Song, documenting the history of African American music through its collection of jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives. To restrict you results in the American Song interface to African American content: 1. Browse by Genre - there is a broad category called "African American Music," which restricts your results, and which you can narrow further by sub-genre, ensemble, artist, etc.; 2. Browse by Album/Track - there is a "restrict results to African American content only" checkbox on the upper right hand corner of both browses.
Search American Song, Classical Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound in one interface through Music Online (Alexander Street Press).
This resource is mobile-enabled
Mobile App Click here for the mobile app
Wherever you see the “send to mobile” icon , you are able to obtain a "shortlink" to enable playback on your mobile device.
Music Online provides several ways to send a shortlink to your mobile device:
- We can send a shortlink as a text SMS message to your device.
- We can email a shortlink to a specific address which you can then pick up on your device
- You can enter a shortlink directly into your mobile device's web browser
- On supported devices, you can also have your device read a special barcode, or QR-Code, directly from your computer screen.
Streaming service is currently available for:
- Apple iPhone on 3G network or better
- Mobile Device with Android OS
Access Information Resource is available on-campus or off-campus via EZProxy; Click the resource name to access it or here for off-campus instructions.
Vendor Name Alexander Street Press
Special Usage Notes
For listening in the Fine Arts Library, you will need to check out headphones from the Media Center. Personal headphones may also be used and will be required for listening in other campus libraries. Download and purchase of recordings require the user to create an account and pay with appropriate credit; this activity is best done from home computers.
Research Guides African American Resources, American Literature, 20th Century, Music,
Description:
Coverage includes dance, music, theatre, film and the broadcast arts. Collections are sourced from research and digitization projects in UK higher education departments and also from the cultural heritage sector(s), including database catalogs and finding aids of the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture, Scottish Screen Archive, and Cecilia. Other database collections searchable online include the Bach Bibliography Database, North African Film and Filmmakers Dictionary, BBC Radio 4 'Analysis' Database, and Royal Shakespeare Company Archives 'FESTE' Database. In addition, collections comprising the output of digitization projects (Designing Shakespeare, Five Centuries of Scottish Music, etc.) offer searchable and browseable access to digital versions of archive materials including music scores, photographs, video and audio materials. In most cases these materials can be freely downloaded for use in an educational context. Part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service.
Access Information Free resource - available to everyone on the Internet
Vendor Name Arts and Humanities Data Service
Special Usage Notes
Many of the items available through this service are full-text. For electronic access to articles from journals cited in this database, search the journal title in the E-Journals Database. To see if we own a paper copy of the work, search the title in our online catalog, InfoKat. If we do not own the item in any format, and you are a UK-affiliate, you may request it through Interlibrary Loan.
Description:
Archival collections from Library of Congress. Browse and search. Topics: Advertising, African American History, Architecture/Landscape, Cities/Towns, Culture/Folklife, Environment/Conservation, Government/Law, Immigration/American Expansion, Literature, Maps, Native American History, Performing Arts/Music, Presidents, Religion, Sports/Recreation, Technology/Industry, War/Military, and Women's History.
Access Information Free resource - available to everyone on the Internet
Vendor Name Library of Congress
Special Usage Notes
Research Guides American Literature, 20th Century, History, U.S. Federal Government Research,
Description:
Speech media resource that includes:
- Online Speech Bank, an index to and growing database of 5000+ full-text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two. Several hundred links are arranged alphabetically by first name.
- Rhetorical Figures in Sound, a compendium of 200+ brief audio (mp3) clips illustrating 37 different figures of speech. For each rhetorical device, definitions and examples, written and audio, are provided. Audio examples are taken from public speeches and sermons, movies, songs, lectures, oral interpretations of literature, and other media events. Some artifacts have been edited further to make the devices easier to detect.
- Top 100 Speeches, index to and partial database of full-text transcriptions of the "100 most significant American political speeches of the 20th century," according to a list compiled by Professors Stephen E. Lucas and Martin J. Medhurst.
and a number of other resources of value and interest to students and scholars of rhetoric.
Access Information Free resource - available to everyone on the Internet
Vendor Name Michael E. Eidenmuller, University of Texas, Tyler
Special Usage Notes
Research Guides American Literature, 20th Century, Communication,
Description:
Collection of streaming files totalling over 50,000 songs. American Song includes contemporary folk/roots/Americana music, early rock & roll, soul, funk, R&B, doo-wop, boogie-woogie, early Biograph recordings, blues, jazz, gospel, spirituals, disco, blues-rock, reggae, bluegrass, country, rockabilly, and honky-tonk. Also includes African American Song, documenting the history of African American music through its collection of jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives. To restrict you results in the American Song interface to African American content: 1. Browse by Genre - there is a broad category called "African American Music," which restricts your results, and which you can narrow further by sub-genre, ensemble, artist, etc.; 2. Browse by Album/Track - there is a "restrict results to African American content only" checkbox on the upper right hand corner of both browses.
Search American Song, Classical Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound in one interface through Music Online (Alexander Street Press).
This resource is mobile-enabled
Mobile App Click here for the mobile app
Wherever you see the “send to mobile” icon , you are able to obtain a "shortlink" to enable playback on your mobile device.
Music Online provides several ways to send a shortlink to your mobile device:
- We can send a shortlink as a text SMS message to your device.
- We can email a shortlink to a specific address which you can then pick up on your device
- You can enter a shortlink directly into your mobile device's web browser
- On supported devices, you can also have your device read a special barcode, or QR-Code, directly from your computer screen.
Streaming service is currently available for:
- Apple iPhone on 3G network or better
- Mobile Device with Android OS
Access Information Resource is available on-campus or off-campus via EZProxy; Click the resource name to access it or here for off-campus instructions.
Vendor Name Alexander Street Press
Special Usage Notes
For listening in the Fine Arts Library, you will need to check out headphones from the Media Center. Personal headphones may also be used and will be required for listening in other campus libraries. Download and purchase of recordings require the user to create an account and pay with appropriate credit; this activity is best done from home computers.
Research Guides African American Resources, American Literature, 20th Century, Music,
Description:
Collection of streaming files totalling over 50,000 songs. American Song includes contemporary folk/roots/Americana music, early rock & roll, soul, funk, R&B, doo-wop, boogie-woogie, early Biograph recordings, blues, jazz, gospel, spirituals, disco, blues-rock, reggae, bluegrass, country, rockabilly, and honky-tonk. Also includes African American Song, documenting the history of African American music through its collection of jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives. To restrict you results in the American Song interface to African American content: 1. Browse by Genre - there is a broad category called "African American Music," which restricts your results, and which you can narrow further by sub-genre, ensemble, artist, etc.; 2. Browse by Album/Track - there is a "restrict results to African American content only" checkbox on the upper right hand corner of both browses.
Search American Song, Classical Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound in one interface through Music Online (Alexander Street Press).
This resource is mobile-enabled
Mobile App Click here for the mobile app
Wherever you see the “send to mobile” icon , you are able to obtain a "shortlink" to enable playback on your mobile device.
Music Online provides several ways to send a shortlink to your mobile device:
- We can send a shortlink as a text SMS message to your device.
- We can email a shortlink to a specific address which you can then pick up on your device
- You can enter a shortlink directly into your mobile device's web browser
- On supported devices, you can also have your device read a special barcode, or QR-Code, directly from your computer screen.
Streaming service is currently available for:
- Apple iPhone on 3G network or better
- Mobile Device with Android OS
Access Information Resource is available on-campus or off-campus via EZProxy; Click the resource name to access it or here for off-campus instructions.
Vendor Name Alexander Street Press
Special Usage Notes
For listening in the Fine Arts Library, you will need to check out headphones from the Media Center. Personal headphones may also be used and will be required for listening in other campus libraries. Download and purchase of recordings require the user to create an account and pay with appropriate credit; this activity is best done from home computers.
Research Guides African American Resources, American Literature, 20th Century, Music,
