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.

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. 

 

New music reference products from ASP now live!

Alexander Street’s newest offerings in music reference are now available. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online and Classical Music Reference Library launched today.  Trials for these and other ASP databases can now be set up using our online request form.

If you have already requested access,  but have not yet received your activation notice, please contact your sales representative or our customer service department at support@astreetpress.com. 

This first release of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online includes all ten volumes of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, a comprehensive, award-winning music text product. These volumes (more than 9,200 pages!) are keyword searchable; you can even narrow down the search to a specific volume.  When this project is complete, you can look forward to audio examples, drawings, maps, and more.  We've designed this database, with the input of more than 700 experts from around  the world, to be the foremost Internet resource in ethnomusicology, while being accessible to every student of music, geography, and culture.

Classical Music Reference Library also offers some exciting content in the first release. Users will have access to all of the Baker reference titles, plus additional sources. Together, there are more than 13,000 pages of material available including reference works from Baker, essays, and images of scores. Like The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, Classical Music Reference Library is keyword searchable.  When this product is finished it will contain links to tracks in Classical Music Library and links to scores in Classical Music Scores Library and 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database.

Stay tuned to all of Alexander Street’s blogs for content updates.