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Sound Recordings
 Websites presented in alphabetical order 4 Minutes About Podcasting 
 Podcasting is a kind of homespun Internet "folk radio." Podcasts can be listened to on computers and MP3 players (including the iPod). "Four Minutes about Podcasting is a short film that tells you why podcasting can make your life better, and shows you everything you need to know to set up a simple program to have new podcasts downloaded automatically." By writer and blogger Lisa Williams. http://www.cadence90.com/wp/?p=3548 Topics: Internet, Media, Media, Music Last updated Jul 9, 2009 Archive of Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA)
AILLA is a searchable and browsable "archive of recordings and texts in and about the indigenous languages of Latin America." Features "recordings of naturally-occurring discourse in a wide range of genres, including narratives, ceremonies, oratory, conversations, and songs. Many of these recordings are accompanied by transcriptions." Also includes information about the hundreds of indigenous languages. Registration (free) required. Some materials have access restrictions. From the University of Texas at Austin. http://www.ailla.utexas.org/ Topics: Archives, Internet, Languages, Music, Regions of the World Last updated Oct 24, 2005 Assistive Media (AM)
This site, intended for the "world-wide disability community," provides free audio files of readings of short literary works. Selections are "from reputable mainstream periodicals ( The New Yorker , Harper's , Wired , Scientific American , Atlantic Monthly , Civilization , Smithsonian ,...and more) and independent writers; providing an eclectic mixture of interesting and educational material." Files vary in length with most being under an hour of listening time, and may be listened to online or downloaded for personal use. http://www.assistivemedia.org/ Topics: Computers, Disabilities, Internet, Literature & Books, Music Last updated Sep 18, 2002 AudioBooksForFree.Com
This collection of fiction and nonfiction MP3 audio books is financed with brief commercials between book chapters. Children's books carry no advertising. Browse for desired books by author, title, and genre or use the search engine with filter settings for strong language, duration, author, and adult content. Registration required to download. http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/ Topics: Disabilities, Internet, Literature & Books, Music Last updated Jun 21, 2005 BBC: Audio Interviews
Archived interviews with "cultural greats of the 20th Century talking about their work." Find audio clips (most under five minutes long) and biographical profiles. Featured authors include Enid Blyton, Judi Dench, Le Corbusier, Bob Marley, Nureyev, Pele, Shaw, Tutu, and nearly 100 others. May be browsed by name or profession (artists, performers, artists, philosophers, writers, etc.). http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/ Topics: Business, Internet, Media, Media, Music, Nonfiction by Genre, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Jun 9, 2005 Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
Part of Ohio State University, Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics "houses one of the largest collections of recorded animal sounds in the world." The site features a catalog and database of thousands of recordings, browsable by common or scientific name. Also includes tips for documenting recordings, and related Web links. http://blb.biosci.ohio-state.edu/ Topics: Animals, Internet, Music Last updated Dec 31, 2005 Both Sides Now Publications
With its origins in the author's interest in stereo recordings, this site focuses on "any popular music that came out before the mid-1980s." The core of the site, LP Discographies , has detailed discographies of hundreds of record labels and over twenty label histories (see name of label followed by Story ). There's also a discussion board (archived back to June 1997), an informative essay About Oldies CDs , and information on the Both Sides Now Stereo Newsletter (quarterly, available by subscription). Searchable. http://www.bsnpubs.com/ Topics: Internet, Music, Musical Genres Last updated Oct 18, 2000 Ceremonial Music
A collection of recordings "approved by the Department of the Air Force for use in public service broadcasting, recruiting, educational activities, and troop morale and retention." Selections include "The Stars and Stripes Forever," "Amazing Grace," and "The Air Force Song." From the United States Air Force Heritage of America Band. http://www.heritageofamericaband.af.mil/recordings/ceremonialmusic2.asp Topics: Internet, Music, Musical Genres Last updated Nov 10, 2009 Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine: Vintage Phonograph Recordings, 1900-1939
"This site is devoted to vintage music from the early decades of the 20th Century. All recordings have been transcribed into streaming Real Audio from the original 78 rpm discs in my personal collection." Includes Radio Dismuke , an online radio station; Hit of the Week ; and a browsable collection of recordings. http://dismuke.org/ Topics: Internet, Music, Musical Genres Last updated May 12, 2004 Document Records
This commercial site features a database of citations of early African American classic and vintage blues, jazz, boogie-woogie, gospel, spirituals, ballads, work songs, and country music. Information includes album covers and song titles, and often a brief profile of the performers and audio clips. http://www.document-records.com/ Topics: Black Resources, Internet, Music, Musical Genres Last updated Jan 11, 2007 English Accents and Dialects
"All languages change over time and vary according to place and social domain, as is perfectly illustrated by these extracts taken from two large audio resources held in the British Library Sound Archive. ... Together, they provide a fascinating overview of spoken English during the second half of the 20th century." Includes dozens of browsable sound clips and a glossary. A part of the British Library Collect Britain project. http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/dialects/ Topics: English Language, Internet, Music Last updated Feb 29, 2004 File Sharing
This site from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) advocates for legalizing music file-sharing (also known as P2P, for "peer to peer"). Includes "information on compensating artists while making P2P legal." The "Subpoena Defense" section includes a searchable database of subpoenas filed by the Recording Industry Association of America to compel Internet Service Providers to identify users who are file-sharing. http://www.eff.org/issues/file-sharing Topics: Intellectual Property, Internet, Music Last updated Nov 1, 2007 FindSounds.com
This site enables you to find a wide range of sounds on the Internet. Sounds are found in the popular AIFF, AU, and WAV file formats. Most sounds are quite short (from approximately two to six seconds long). Some categories are animals, birds, insects, musical instruments, nature and people, television and movies, and vehicle sounds. Or you can type in a word of your choice. There is a Copyright Policy section which states that the site "does not offer advice on fair use of these files." You can also download the Comparisonics Audio Player. http://www.findsounds.com/ Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Internet, Internet Guides & Search Tools, Media, Media, Music Last updated Aug 29, 2004 HistoricalVoices.org
Historical Voices is creating "a significant...online database of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century." Galleries lists their eclectic collection of databases and links. Following another goal of the project, there is also research on "sound digitization, system architecture, federated searching, metadata implementations, online delivery, and multimedia education." http://www.historicalvoices.org/ Topics: Government, History, Internet, Libraries & Archives by Type, Music, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Oct 3, 2002 Image and Sound Databases
"Included here are image and sound databases which provide access to works of art, news and film archives, cultural artifacts, design collections, advertising, historical broadcasts, manuscripts and photographs." From the University of California, Berkeley, libraries. Some databases available only to users affiliated with the university. http://sunsite2.berkeley.edu:8088/ERF/servlet/ERFmain?cmd=searchResType&resTypeId=14 Topics: Internet, Internet Guides & Search Tools Last updated Jun 26, 2007 Inventing Entertainment: The Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
This searcable and browsable site showcases the life and work of Thomas A. Edison, the "Wizard of Menlo Park," who patented 1,093 inventions, including the phonograph, the incandescent bulb, and some that became the basis for today's motion picture and sound recording industries. Features early motion pictures and sound recordings, photographs, a biography, and a timeline of significant events. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html Topics: Film, Movies, & Video, Internet, Music, Notable People, Science, Technology Last updated Oct 2, 2004 LBJ White House Tapes
This website has taped phone conversations by President Lyndon Johnson. Many of the recordings have introductory comments provided by C-SPAN radio. More than eight hundred of Johnson's taped conversations are available, searchable by topic, keyword, or participant. Themes include civil rights, Vietnam, the Warren Commission, and the Kennedy assassination. A fascinating listen into a style of leadership during the turbulent sixties. http://www.c-span.org/lbj/homepage.asp?Cat=Series&Code=LJ&ShowVidNum=6&Rot_Cat_CD=LJ&Rot_HT=206&Rot_WD=&ShowVidDays=60&ShowVidDesc=&ArchiveDays=30 Topics: Internet, Presidents by Name Last updated Sep 21, 2006 Living Voices/Voces Vivas
This Web site from the Smithsonian features audio profiles of Native Americans and Native Hawaiians. "People of many ages, traditions and perspectives tell their own stories, reflecting the wide range of contemporary Native experience in Canada, Mexico, Panama, and the U.S." Files on this site are in English (there is also a limited Spanish version of the site); the foreign-language profiles may be ordered separately on CD. http://www.nmai.si.edu/livingvoices/ Topics: History, Internet, Native Americans, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Aug 30, 2002 Lost & Found Sound
A compilation of stories that ran on the National Public Radio (NPR) All Things Considered program from 1999-2004 about non-traditional sound recordings. Topics include the Green Street Mortuary Band from San Francisco's Chinatown, carnival talkers (barkers), a 1938 commentary by a Gettysburg Address eyewitness, and harmonica lessons. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1074 Topics: Internet, Media, Music, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Sep 9, 2009 The Maine Music Box
A digitized collection of rare, unique, and historically important sheet music and manuscript scores, including popular, classical, and sacred music from about 1845 onward. Entry content varies depending on copyright status. Most include covers and bibliographic record; public domain materials may also have full scores and sound files. From the collections of the Bagaduce Music Lending Library, Blue Hill, Maine, and the Bangor (Maine) Public Library. http://mainemusicbox.library.umaine.edu/ Topics: Internet, Music, Musical Genres Last updated Jul 16, 2007 Minidisc Community Page
The MiniDisc, promoted as the successor to the audiocassette, is firmly established in Japan and Europe, and increasingly popular in the USA. To learn all that can be learned about MD audio, this is the Web site to visit. Maintained by Mini Disc enthusiasts around the world, with mirror sites in Australia, Japan, Finland, UK and the USA. Constantly updated, level-headed, and quietly humorous, it notes the views of MD skeptics and foes as well as the converted. It also traces developments in Web distribution of music, including the MP3 format. Links to almost all other MiniDisc sites on the Web. http://www.minidisc.org/ Topics: Internet, Music, Musical Genres Last updated Apr 12, 2001 Nature Songs
A sampling of sounds from nature, including those of North American and Costa Rican birds as well as other animals, insects, and even people. There are links to other sound sites. Additionally, there is technical information about make recording and how to reduce the size of a sound file. http://www.naturesongs.com/ Topics: Birds, Internet, Music, Science Last updated Aug 20, 2002 OneWorld Radio
This site "offers services and networking for broadcasters and civil society organisations that use radio for human rights and sustainable development." Features online audio content from member organizations in several languages and a membership directory. Searchable by language, member, or topic. Includes special section on AIDS/HIV. http://radio.oneworld.net/ Topics: Constitutional Law & Civil Liberties, Environment, International Governments, Internet, Media, Music, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment, Technology Last updated Jan 2, 2006 Online Audio and Video Recordings: UC Berkeley Lectures and Events
Audio and video of interviews, speeches, lectures, and poetry readings from James Baldwin, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Michel Foucault, Malcolm X, Robert Frost, and others. From The Teaching Library, University of California, Berkeley. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/audiofiles.html Topics: Government, Internet, Music, Nonfiction by Genre, Poetry, Presidents by Name Last updated Jul 5, 2004 Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
"The OYEZ Project is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work. It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. The Project also provides authoritative information on all justices and offers a virtual reality 'tour' of portions of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers of some of the justices." http://www.oyez.org/ Topics: Federal (U.S.) Government, Internet, Judicial Process Last updated Feb 17, 2007 Pacifica Radio
Program schedules, stations, features from Pacifica Network News, live programs, and message boards. Sister stations include KPFA (Berkeley), KPFK (Los Angeles), KPFT (Houston), WBAI (New York), and WPFW (Washington DC). Includes the Pacifica Radio Archive, with over 40,000 recordings. Archives may be searched by title, subject, or word, or browsed by date. http://www.pacifica.org/ Topics: Media, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Nov 30, 2002 Piracy: Online and on the Street
Arguments against music file-sharing as presented by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which calls this practice "online piracy." Includes a discussion of copyright, possible penalties for file-sharing, instructions for reporting violations, news, and information about the RIAA's efforts to bring lawsuits against individual computer users who are file-sharing. Features tips for consumers on how to identify pirated sound recordings. http://www.riaa.com/physicalpiracy.php Topics: Intellectual Property, Internet, Music Last updated Jun 23, 2007 Podcast Alley
Find hundreds of podcasts (subscription-based Web audio broadcasts, often homegrown), podcasting software (much of it free), explanations of podcasting, how-tos for would-be broadcasters, popular podcasts, and much more. Maintained by a podcasting enthusiast. http://www.podcastalley.com Topics: Computers, Computers, Internet, Media, Media, Music Last updated Dec 22, 2004 Public Radio Exchange
This not-for-profit "web-based marketplace for public radio programming" provides freely-available, original sound-based content on a wide variety of topics, many of them unusual and interesting. Diehard public radio junkies can register (free) to contribute comments about PRX programs. Includes a blog and a podcast. http://www.prx.org Topics: Blogs & Podcasts by Subject, Internet, Media, Music, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Jun 8, 2007 Smithsonian Folkways
"Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution, the national museum of the United States," dedicated to "supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation and dissemination of sound." The site contains a searchable catalog of recordings (genres include folk, bluegrass, blues, humor, old time, poetry, and world music); events information; tour dates of featured artists; new releases; and more. http://www.folkways.si.edu/ Topics: Internet, Music, Musical Genres, Poetry Last updated Jun 18, 2008 The Sonic Memorial Project
"SonicMemorial.org is an open archive and an online audio installation of the history of The World Trade Center. We are continuing to collect stories, ambient sounds, voicemails, and archival recordings to tell the rich history of the twin towers, the neighborhood and the events of 9/11." Also includes information for educators, a timeline, and opportunities for contributing to the project. http://sonicmemorial.org/ Topics: Internet, September 11 & Beyond Last updated Dec 5, 2005 StoryCorps
Information about "a national project to instruct and inspire people to record each others' stories in sound." Features audio clips of stories recorded at New York City's Grand Central Station, as well as links to radio broadcasts of interviews. Also includes information about the StoryBooths, which will be built across the country for recording oral histories to be housed at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. http://www.storycorps.org/ Topics: History, Internet, Music, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Sep 22, 2009 Talking History: Aural History Productions
This center aims to "provide teachers, students, researchers, and the general public with as broad and outstanding collection of audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural history resources." Offers a weekly Internet broadcast (focusing on all aspects of history) and program archives (browsable by date, and searchable). From the University at Albany, State University of New York. http://www.talkinghistory.org/ Topics: History, Internet, Media, Music, Nonfiction by Genre, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Jan 1, 2004 Taylor's Traditional Tunebook
Instrumental audio files, most accompanied by lyrics, of dozens of traditional songs from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, England, the United States, and Canada. http://www.contemplator.com/tunebook/ Topics: Internet, Music, Musical Genres Last updated Aug 19, 2003 Vincent Voice Library
The G. Robert Vincent Voice Library, part of the Digital and Multimedia Center of the Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries, is the largest academic voice library in the nation, with a collection of "utterances" (speeches, lectures, interviews, etc.) by more than 50,000 people, recorded over the last 100 years. Listen to the voices of U.S. presidents, Edwin Booth reading from Othello onto an Edison cylinder, and Will Rogers' 1922 campaign speech. Searchable. http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/index.cfm Topics: Internet, Music, The United States Presidency Last updated Sep 22, 2009 The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings
This "growing multimedia website [is] devoted to the early days of Canadian recorded sound" as produced on 78-rpm recordings. Listen to selected recordings, sorted by title or performer, or search the database of original recordings. Includes a history of recorded sound in Canada, biographies of Canadian artists, a bibliography, a glossary, and resources for teachers. Available in French and English. From the National Library of Canada. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/gramophone/ Topics: Industries, Internet, Libraries & Archives by Type, Music Last updated Jan 19, 2009 Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-41
A "collection documenting the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration (FSA) migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941. This collection consists of audio recordings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and ephemera. ... [Includes] dance tunes, cowboy songs, traditional ballads, square dance and play party calls, camp council meetings, camp court proceedings, conversations, storytelling sessions, and personal experience narratives" of Dust Bowl refugees. From the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afctshtml/ Topics: Agriculture, Emigration & Immigration, Internet, Labor, Music, United States History Last updated Jan 2, 2009 www.tinfoil.com
Explore the world of early recorded sound with plenty of pictures of wax cylinders and the equipment used to play them. Sound files are available if one has a yen to listen to scratchy music. Includes a recording of Thomas Alva Edison's voice and a video clip from the 1940 movie "Edison, the Man." Site also offers advice to collectors and links to related resources, including where to buy and sell the recordings. http://www.tinfoil.com/ Topics: Collectors & Collecting, Internet, Music, Musical Genres Last updated Dec 19, 2005 Yiddish Radio Project
This is the site of an NPR documentary about the golden age of Yiddish radio (1930-1950), which depicted the daily life of Eastern European Jewish immigrants in their new homeland. The dramas, political commentary, advice shows, talent shows, and music provided entertainment and comfort. The site has photos of radio personalities, sound clips, a documentary, and an explanation of the work of Henry Sapoznik, who found and restored the disks with the programs. http://yiddishradioproject.org/ Topics: Internet, Judaism, Languages, Media, Music, Musical Genres, Photograph Collections: History, Sports, Recreation, & Entertainment Last updated Nov 30, 2002 |
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