Research Guides: Find Audio: Audio

Music Online: Listening (Alexander Street)
Collection of Classical music records featuring music from the earliest times to the present.
Naxos Music Library
Comprehensive streaming audio database for classical repertoire.
Naxos Music Library Jazz
Streaming audio.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries (Alexander Street)
This collection is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions, providing access to a variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.
Ethnographic Sound Archives Online (Alexander Street)
Over 2,000 hours of historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers metadata, for the study of music in its cultural context.
Great 78 Project

Jamendo
Free music downloads & streaming from thousands of independent artists.
Noisetrade
A global online audio and book direct-to-fan distribution platform.
Soundcloud
An online audio distribution platform and music sharing website that enables its users to upload, promote, and share audio.

American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank
5000+ full text, audio, and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews and more.
American Presidency Project
Includes a small collection of historical presidential audio recordings.
History Channel Speeches
Speeches by political leaders, sports figures and other cultural personalities worldwide.
History Politics Out Loud
A searchable audio archive of significant political and historical events and personalities of the twentieth century.
The OYEZ Project
Online recordings of significant Supreme Court oral arguments.
White House Web Site
Includes audio of speeches, addresses and presidential statements.
Historical Speeches
Top 100 Speeches
Great Speeches of the 20th Century
Famous Political Speeches
Women's Speeches from Around the World

Oral History Bibliography
Story Corps
StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.

America in the 1930s
Includes clips from movies and radio broadcasts of the 1930s, as well as examples of print and material culture.

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection (Alexander Street)
More than 300 works from the L.A. Theatre Works radio theatre company.

Ambient Mixer
British Library Sounds
Listen to Wikipedia
Listen to Wikipedia correlates sound to Wikipedia's recent changes feed. It uses pitch and timbre to indicate sizes of edits, additions and subtractions
Noisli
Noisli is a productivity tool meant to block out distractions and increase focus. It also can be used to create a sound environment.
Sounddogs

OneDrive AudioBooks
Browse and borrow from a selection of eBooks and audiobooks across a range of subjects

Music Library

Howard B. Waltz Music Library

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