Capital: Mexico City
Official Language: Spanish
Population (2022 est.): 128,550,000
Monetary unit: Mexican Peso
Did you know?: In Mexico, struggling artists can pay taxes with their artwork.
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Streaming audio collection of sounds from around the world. Genres include reggae, Balkanic jazz, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - fado, flamenco, klezmer, gagaku, and more.
This streaming audio database produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
A streaming audio database featuring a comprehensive collection of classical music. Search by composer, artist, label, and more. Includes guides on musical eras and other topical resources.
Bibliography on writings about music with some full-text articles. Covers traditional music, popular music, classical music, and more. Coverage from the early 19th century to present.
An encyclopedia about music all over the world.
Covers popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music.
Comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship. Search by instrument, era, region, and more.
An online language learning resource that covers over 70 languages. Courses are accessible from a web browser or app.
A language learning application.
With more than 2 million images* (and growing), Artstor is a cross-disciplinary collection of rights-cleared images from around the world.
*Note: The number of images available varies by country due to copyright restrictions.
A multidisciplinary streaming video collection containing documentaries, films, interviews, music, news programs, and performances.
Historical Latin American Newspapers published between 1805-1922.
Index and full-text of popular Hispanic magazines.
A collection of government documents produced by the British Foreign and Colonial Offices (c1833-1969). Covers the whole of South and Central America, plus the non-British islands of the Caribbean, from just after the final Spanish withdrawal from mainland America in the 1820s to the height of the Cold War in the 1960s.
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