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Audio recordings documenting the history of African American song, including jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives with many previously unreleased field recordings. When completed the collection will include ca. 50,000 recordings.

Online listening of 50,000 songs documenting American history with songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, and pioneers. Genres include: country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel.

Online listening for more than 20,000 classical music recordings. Search or browse for works by composer, performer, instrument, period, and more.

Listen to reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.

Online listening for more than 1500 albums from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other important labels.

Large collection of classical and world music recordings from the Naxos and Marco Polo labels, with program notes.

Recordings from the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.