Research Guides: Music in the United States: Audio-Visual Resources

Streaming Audio and Video

Music & Performing Arts
(extensive audio and video for classical, opera, jazz, world, & American music)
Naxos Music Library
(classical music)
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CDs by specific composers/performers can be found by doing an advanced search in the online catalog with the format limited to compact disc.

Index to the New World Recorded Anthology of American Music: A User’s Guide to the Initial One Hundred Records by Davis, E.
Call Number: Ref ML156.9.D38
(then search the online catalog for titles of interest. Some titles are cassettes, others also available in compact disc.)

Videos by specific composers/performers can be found by doing an advanced search in the online catalog with the format limited to video recording.

Great American Songbook
Call Number: DVD M1630.18 .G665 2003
Broadway: The American Musical
Call Number: DVD ML1711.8 .N3 B762 2004
Chase the Devil: Religious Music of the Appalachian Mountains
Call Number: DVD ML2911 .C42 2003
Amazing Grace with Bill Moyers
Call Number: DVD ML3187 .A43 2004
Too Close to Heaven: The Story of Gospel Music
Call Number: DVD ML3187 .T66 2004
Awake my Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp
Call Number: DVD ML3188 .A93 2006
Jazz
Call Number: DVD ML3506 .J38 2000 v.1-10
High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music
Call Number: DVD ML3520 .H535 1997
The Blues, A Musical Journey
Call Number: DVD ML3521 .M372 2003
American Roots Music
Call Number: DVD ML3551 .A542 2001 no.1-4