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Naxos Music Library

Online Archives

UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive

10,000 wax cylinder recording from the 19th and early 20th century available for download, streaming,  and re-use.

National Jukebox

Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress. "Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925."

Ethnomusicology field recordings

Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings (Am Explorer

→ connect to AM Explorer → Collections → Ethnomusicology.

Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, the material in this collection includes thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study