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 | African American Music Reference Description: This database chronicles the history of music by African Americans over time, including links to external web resources, streaming audio tracks and musical scores. Help: Navigating the Site | Help Contents | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about African American Music Reference? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | All Music Guide Description: A large, informative site covering multiple styles of music (rap, rock, classical, country, etc.). Help: Support | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about All Music Guide? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
| American Civil War Research Database Description: A resource to obtain statistics, photographs and other information about individuals, regiments and battles of the American Civil War. Analytical research tools are also available. Help: Help | FAQ | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about American Civil War Research Database? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | American Memory Project Description: American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. Tags: sheet music, (show tags)(hide tags) Help: FAQ | Help | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about American Memory Project? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
| American Song Description: A streaming music database which captures America's past through a variety of genres. Includes many artists addressing a range of social issues and historical events. Tags: music online, African American Song (show tags)(hide tags) Help: Help | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about American Song? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | American Variety Stage Description: A multimedia anthology, this collection covers diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920. Includes 334 English- and Yiddish-language play scripts, more than 140 theater playbills and programs, several dozen motion pictures, ten sound recordings, and a substantial collection of photographs and ephemera on Harry Houdini. Help: How To View | How To View (video) | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about American Variety Stage? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | British Library Archival Sound Recordings Description: The British Library holds one of the world's foremost sound archives with a collection of over 3.5 million audio recordings. These recordings cover the entire range of recorded sound from music, drama and literature, to oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds. Tags: drama, oral history (show tags)(hide tags) Help: Help | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about British Library Archival Sound Recordings? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Classical Music Library Description: This is an electronic database of classical music recordings, with digital audio selections cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. User may also use the databases option to create playlists and themes. Help: Help | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Classical Music Library? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Contemporary World Music Description: Contemporary World Music contains 50,000 tracks that deliver the sounds of all regions from every continent. It includes genres such as 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. Help: Help | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Contemporary World Music? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project Description: The earliest method of recording and reproducing sound was on phonograph cylinders. UCSB Libraries have created a digital collection of nearly 8,000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections. Tags: recordings (show tags)(hide tags) Help: Help & FAQ | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Description: DPLA offers a single point of access to millions of items from digital collections around the United States. Includes photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images and more. Search by topic, timeline, map, and format. Tags: DPLA, history united states, archaeology, architecture, sociology (show tags)(hide tags) Help: Help | FAQ | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
| Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, The Description: The full text of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, additional text related to world music, audio examples and links to streaming audio tracks. Help: Help | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, The? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
| Music Online  Description: Cross-search hundreds of thousands of audio tracks, scores, and reference works across many Alexander Street Press music databases including African American Music Reference, American Song, Classical Music Library, Garland Encyclopedia of Music, and Smithsonian Global Sound. Comments or questions about Music Online? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Naxos Music Library (NML) Description: Naxos Music Library is the world's largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 46,000 CDs with more than 653,000 tracks, standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month. NML can be accessed from any computer, anywhere, anytime. With the new iPhone / iPod Touch App subscribers can also access the service on the go. Tags: NML (show tags)(hide tags) Help: Member's User Guide | FAQs | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Naxos Music Library (NML)? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Naxos Music Library Jazz Description: Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collection of Jazz music available online. Contains more than 3000 CDs and new CDs are added every month. Help: FAQ | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Naxos Music Library Jazz? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories Description: Provides access to personal accounts of immigrants who came to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Help: Help | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Oxford Music Online Description: Contains over 29,000 articles and approximately 250,000 citations. Offers full-text searching capabilities as well as article browsing. Selected articles include links to related sites, including sound archives and illustrations. Help: Quickstart | Table of Contents | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Oxford Music Online? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries Description: This is an electronic database of approximately 35,000 tracks of world music and sound recordings from the archives of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, with audio selections cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. Help: Searching Overview | Help Contents | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
 | Western Waters Digital Library Description: Provides access to significant resources on water in the western United States. Available resources include classic water literature, legal transcripts, maps, reports, personal papers, water project records, photographs, audio recordings, videos, and other material. Help: FAQ | (show help)(hide help) Comments or questions about Western Waters Digital Library? Email us at: library@ucmerced.edu |
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