WRITING 230K: Writing Performance across Cultures: Online Music & Video

Stream music from over 75,000 discs--primarily classical, jazz, and world music.

Nearly 1500 streaming videos of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries, includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, among others.

Includes the following streaming audio databases, also linked individually below: Smithsonian Global Sound, Contemporary World Music, Classical Music Library, Jazz Music Library, and American Song.

Offers nearly 3000 discs which document the world's musical and aural traditions, featuring Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Over 16,000 discs of world music, including reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.

Over 7,000 discs documenting America's past in song, including songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys, as well as songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.

Nearly 11,000 discs covering a wide spectrum of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.

Nearly 8,000 discs of classical music from all periods and from major labels such as including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, and Vox

Recordings from independent record labels and sound archives, featuring complete original liner notes and essays from such labels as New World Records, CRI, Albany, and Cedille

A cross-section of China’s contemporary art scene

An online dance video database for the 'competitive' dancer.