Research Guides: World Music: Audio/Video

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World Music Video Series

JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance
30 volume series of videos exploring the music and dance of many international cultures.

Videos

For additional help with searching for videos, visit the Music Research Guide - Videos tab.

Do a keyword search in Smart Search and limit by material type, Audio Visual.

Examples

Music - Africa
Music - China

Streaming Audio and Video

To access these resources from off campus, simply log in using your CMU Global ID and password. For more information on using mobile devices, creating playlists, or permalinks, see the Streaming Audio guide.

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
The world's largest online music library, it offers streaming access to more than 40,740 CDs with more than 583,600 tracks. The library offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels
Naxos Music Library: Jazz This link opens in a new window
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues of over 75,000 tracks, including Classical music, Historical recordings, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.
Naxos Video Library This link opens in a new window
Watch the world's greatest opera houses, ballet companies, orchestras and artists perform on demand. Contains over full-length videos that you can edit and add to individual playlists, with subtitles available in over 5 languages and libretto/text included when available
DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) This link opens in a new window
A scholarly resource of recordings, including CD quality audio, liner notes, and essays from New World, Composer Recordings (formerly Composers Recordings Inc./CRI) and other important labels.

Theatre in Video
Containing more than 250 plays and 100 documentaries on the subject of theatre, and covering a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Users have access to the full text of a play, the history of its performance, the production background, reference materials and ephemera, and the complete performance itself.

The Global Jukebox

Global Jukebox
The Global Jukebox presents traditions that are linked to the roots of the world's peoples. Alan Lomax called it a "democratic cultural system". The visitor may explore collections of music, dance, and speech from almost every corner of the globe, recorded by hundreds of pioneering ethnographers at times when mass communications were less pervasive than now.

World Music: Stories Behind the Songs

This video comes from Films on Demand. For additional information on using this resource or finding other related films, see the Finding Videos Guide.