Alexander Street Press News and Updates

American Song now live

I am pleased to announce that American Song is now live! Contact us to set up a free trial for your library or institution.

American Song is a history database of 50,000 songs that users listen to over the Internet. It allows people to hear and feel the music from our past. Much more than a repository of well known classics like Yankee Doodle and The Star Spangled Banner, this new resource includes music that relates to almost every walk of American life, every ethnic group, and every time period. You’ll find songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. There are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and anti-war protests. Hymns, funny songs, college songs, sea shanties, shape note songs, and about topics as diverse as New York and electricity.

Updated Usage Stats Now Available

The Product Usage Statistics site has been updated with data through October 2007.   As many of you know, we have been performing maintenance on the site that has prevented regular updates.  Several fixes have been made, which will allow us to update the site monthly from this point on.

You may also notice that some of the numbers previously available have changed.  This is due to adjustments made to our reporting system, which will provide more accurate numbers.  All numbers currently shown on the site are the most accurate.

Several other enhancements and improvements are planned for 2008, but these will not impact the availability of your stats.  If you have not yet received your login information to access your usage stats online, please contact me at pcole@alexanderstreet.com.

We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience this delay may have caused.  If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.  Thank you.

Patrick Cole
pcole@alexanderstreet.com

Contemporary World Music

I am pleased to announce another new streaming music collection has gone live -- Contemporary World Music.

 

Contemporary World Music contains 50,000 tracks that deliver the sounds of all regions from every continent.  The database contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.  A complementary database to Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries - it includes a blend of contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world.  The focus is concentrated on contemporary genres, such as fusion and world beat.