Research Guides: World Music: Listen & View

Listen to World World Music @ VCU Libraries

Find & Listen to Music at Cabell Library

Search by keyword (e.g. instrument, genre, composer, album or song title) in the gold VCU Libraries Search box
Refine search results by Material Type e.g. Online Audios, Audio CD, or Phonograph Records
Click on Request to hold the item for pickup at the Information Service Desk, 1st floor, Cabell Library.

Music Online
Includes Contemporary World Music and Smithsonian Global Sound databases.
The most comprehensive resource of streaming audio, video, reference, books and scores. Integrated searching by ensemble, genre, event, providing in-depth context for music history.
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(Ancient World - present) VCU access only
Ethnographic Video Online
Hundreds of classic and contemporary documentaries on the study of human culture and behavior covering every region of the world.
Dance in Video
Performance, documentaries and training for ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance.
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(1950s-present) VCU access only
Kanopy Streaming
Streaming documentaries, feature films, shorts, and more. Includes films from The Criterion Collection, California Newsreel, Media Education Foundation, First Run Features, Green Planet Films, Michael Blackwood, Kino Lorber and many more. Can be accessed on mobile and smart TV devices via the Kanopy app.

The Society for Ethnomusicology - Archives, Libraries & Museums
A list of resources created by SEM, a global, interdisciplinary network of individuals and institutions engaged in the study of music across all cultural contexts and historical periods.
World Music Audio Archive
Explore BBC's Radio 3 on-location recordings from 2000 to the present, recording the life and musical traditions of countries ranging from Brazil to North Korea and Cuba to Turkmenistan. Includes United States regions.
Global Music Archive
An archive and resource center of traditional and popular song, music and dance of African and the Americas.
World and Traditional Music
British Library Sounds selections from the library's extensive collections of unique recordings, which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds
Ethnomusicology - World Music
University of Washington Libraries research guide, including links to online recordings, videos, journals, sites by region, institutions and archives.
NPR Music: World
Listen to and learn about international music and musicians.
Global Jukebox
The Global Jukebox explores connections between families of expressive style.Thousands of examples of the world’s music, dance and other expressive behavior are available here.