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DXArts Guide: Streaming Audio & Video
This page offers the top recommended resources for DXArts (Digital Arts and Experimental Media).
Streaming Video
- Dance in Video This link opens in a new window
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250 dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century.
[UW restricted] - Medici.tv This link opens in a new window
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Streaming video of classical music performances including concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, master-classes, and educational films. - Opera in Video This link opens in a new window
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Opera in Video is a collection of 250 of the most important opera performances.
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- Theatre in VideoA collection including the BBC Shakespeare Series
[UW restricted] - More Streaming VideoSee the full list of streaming video options available at the UW Libraries
Streaming Audio
- Classical Music Library This link opens in a new window
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The Classic Music Library is a streaming audio server that hosts over 10,000 recordings from the collections of more than 20 independent classical music labels. These recordings range from operas to symphonies to chamber music as well as many contemporary composers.
[UW restricted] - Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new window
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Contemporary World Music contains music from every continent. Genres represented include reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
[UW restricted] - Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) This link opens in a new window
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Labels currently represented on the Database include CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening and Mutable.
[UW restricted] - Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
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This resource provides access to over 165000 tracks (11000 CDs) - the entire Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues, plus other licensed independent labels such as Cedille, Chandos, Klavier, New Albion, and Opera Rara.
[UW restricted] - Naxos Music Library Jazz This link opens in a new window
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Naxos Music Library Jazz is a comprehensive collection of Jazz music available online. It offers close to 20,000 tracks of jazz from over 1,850 albums. Over 500 jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz. Naxos Jazz, along with Prophone and Proprius.
[UW restricted] - Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new window
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Smithsonian Global Sound is the largest collection of traditional, folk and world music available for streaming on the Internet. These recordings are taken from the Folkways collection as well as the International Library of African Music and the Archive Research Center for Ethnomusicology.
[UW restricted] - American Music This link opens in a new window
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Audio tracks of songs illustrating American history, including political campaigns, Civil Rights, and war protests. (Music Online)
- More Streaming AudioSee the full list of streaming audio options available at the Libraries