Call Number: M1627 .J96 2005 (Cabell Library DVDs - See Information Desk)
30 DVD, 9 book collection contains over 500 performances and 1200 pages of text about 100 countries. Essays provide detailed descriptions and essays on social, cultural, and historical background of the music, dance, instruments, costumes and rituals. This Smithsonian Institute / Folkways publication includes maps, charts, and photos. Searchable by country or ethnic group.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance
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