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Streaming video

Films on Demand
Streaming video of documentary and educational films on most topics.

Includes videos from Films for the Humanities & Sciences, BBC, PBS, Cambridge Educational, National Geographic, History Channel, and more.

See educational and documentary films on

World Music

Examples of relevant books in the Castleton library

Worlds of Music : An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples
Call Number: Stacks 781.6 W893
Excursions in World Music
Call Number: Stacks 780.9 Ex27
World Music: A Global Journey
Call Number: Stacks 780.9 M618w
An accompanying CD is available. Ask at the circulation desk for CD 332.
Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World
Call Number: Stacks 780.9 Sh43s
Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae
Call Number: Stacks 780.9729 M319c

eBooks

EBSCO eBooks
Access to thousands of ebooks to read online or download.

Published books available to read online or download. (Subscription resource. Log-in required for off-campus access.)

You can browse a list of books on music from around the world

Some resources on Asian music

CDs and books on Asian music in the Castleton library

CD 25
Music from China [sound recording] Chinese Blossom Orchestra

CD 238
The heavenly orchestra of Bali [sound recording] Gamelan Semar Pegulingan Saih Pitu

CD 265
Putumayo presents Asian groove [sound recording]

Stacks 780.95 M297m
Music Cultures of the Pacific, the Near East, and Asia

Stacks 781.75982 L645j
Javanese Gamelan

Library catalog

Use the Castleton Library Catalog to browse or search for books and more in the holdings of the VSC libraries. These subject headings, or their subheadings, might be helpful.

Music Africa (or another geographic location)
Ethnomusicology
Folk music
World music

For browsing purposes, books on world music can be found at

780.9

Relevant websites

World music on the Internet

Global music archive
Features a Digital Collection of East African Recordings

LANIC: Music (Latin American Network Information Center at Univ. of Texas)

Music India online

Putumayo World Music

Regional Music Resources from the Latin American Network Information Center

BBC World Music
Radio programs on world music topics
Ethnomusicology organizations & institutions
List collected on a research guide on ethnomusicology by University of Washington Libraries
The Global Jukebox
Contains 6000 folk and indigenous songs from cultures in every world region. You can make an account and create playlists, or enter as a guest. Click on the "i" icon at the bottom of the screen for information about each song.

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"It uses a classification scheme based on geography and history (region, division, subregion, area/people, and culture) to make navigation easier and to support a broad view of culture, artistic expression, and the interconnectedness of peoples in the human family...The songs have also been analyzed and coded for musical traits, so they can be compared and grouped together in various ways...The Global Jukebox explores connections between families of expressive style. One can travel the world of song, dance and language through the Wheel Chart and the Map. Thousands of examples of the world’s music, dance and other expressive behavior are available here. The Global Jukebox is presented as a free, non-commercial, educational place for everybody — students, educators, scholars, scientists, musicians, dancers, linguists, artists and music fans can all explore expressive patterns in their own cultural-geographic and diasporic settings and alongside others’. By inviting familiarity with many kinds of vocalizing, musicking, moving, and talking, we hope to reconnect people and communities with their creative heritage and to advance cultural equity."

Cultural heritage projects/Digitized recordings

Digitized audio collections

World and Traditional Music
Digitized recordings, from the British Library

Europeana Collections: Music
"Opening the gateway to Europe’s sound and music heritage."

Radio

Radio Station World
A global radio station directory

Radio Garden
Find and stream radio stations by location, around the world

About regions/places

See the
places/cultures
resources on the Global Studies guide

World music instruments

Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument Collection
From the University of Washington. Includes audio and video.
Virtual Instrument Museum
From Wesleyan University. Includes images and audio. Can be browsed by region.

Key reference sources

The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Call Number: REF 780.3 C7485
Rough Guide to World Music: Africa & Middle East
Call Number: REF 780.9 R755 volume 1
Accompanying CD #470 (Ask at Circulation desk)
Rough Guide to World Music: Europe, Asia & Pacific
Call Number: REF 780.9 R755 volume 2

Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument Collection from the University of Washington. Includes audio and video.

A relevant online journal

Transcultural Music Review
(some articles are in English, some in Spanish)

Some resources on European music

Musics of the Soviet Union
Audiocassette 189

Putumayo Presents Rumba Flamenco
CD 272

Putumayo Presents Celtic Tides
CD 286

World Music: A Global Journey
Call Number: Stacks 780.9 M618w
An accompanying CD is available. Ask at the circulation desk for CD 332. Contains these countries in the Europe chapter: Greece, Spain, Russia, Scotland, Ireland, Hungary, Bulgaria
Encyclopedia of Ireland: An A-Z Guide to its People, Places, History, and Culture
Call Number: REF 941.5003 En195
Includes a chapter on music
North American Fiddle Music: A Research and Information Guide
Ebook. Click to read the book online.
The Encyclopaedia of Music in Ireland
Call Number: REF 780.941503 En19
Publication Date: 2014
Companion to Irish Traditional Music
Call Number: REF 781.629162003 C738
Publication Date: 2011