Alexander Street Press music databases

Gelman recently began a subscription to several streaming music databases through Alexander Street Press. These databases are:

• African American Music- African American Music contains over 50,000 tracks of music, covering jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression. The collection includes music from major labels, such as Document Records, Rounder Records, and Delmark Records.
• American Song- American Song encompasses the great American musical genres including country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, and shape note singing. The music comes from Rounder Records, the Smithsonian Institution, Document Records, and other labels and sources.
• Classical Music Library- Selections range from the earliest Gregorian chants to works by modern composers—including symphonic music, vocal and instrumental music, choral works, and other forms.
• Contemporary World Music- Contemporary World Music allows searching and browsing of over 50,000 tracks by instrument, country, region, artist, genre, recording label, and other categories. Search, click, and listen to 50,000 tracks of reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres. There is also traditional music—Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
  
• Smithsonian Global Sound- Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions, comprised of over 35,000 tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.