LibGuides: Music: World Music Research

Featured Recording

Global Music Archive
The Global Music Archive is a multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas. (From Vanderbilt University)
The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings
Over 140,000 songs celebrating North America’s Spanish-language musical heritage. Listen to music clips and read artist biographies. (From UCLA)
Middle Eastern Music: Digital Projects
Important web resources on Egyptian, Arab, Persian, and Turkish music gathered by librarians at UNC.
HUAPALA
Hawaiian music and Hula archives.

Off-campus users can view the video in our Films on Demand database.

In the database, you can Browse Videos under the Menu at the top left of the home page to find a listing of subjects, including World Music.

Films on Demand (Coverage varies) This link opens in a new window
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Provides streaming videos from the Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational and many others and includes a comprehensive coverage of major fields of knowledge.
Kanopy Streaming Media Collection This link opens in a new window
Kanopy provides a collection with over 26,000 films from 800 producers, including Criterion Collection, New Day Films, California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, PBS, First Run Features, Media Education Foundation, The Great Courses, and many more.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides a searchable database for the backfiles of hundreds of full text journals across a wide variety of disciplines. (Backfiles start in the 1800s and end 3-5 years prior to current date.)
Project MUSE - Standard Collection (Coverage varies by journal) This link opens in a new window
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Provides full text of articles from of nearly 200 journal titles in the humanities and social sciences, with full searching capabilities. Project Muse is provided by Johns Hopkins University Press.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by Ruth M. Stone (Editor)
Call Number: ML100 .G16 1998
ISBN: 0824060350
Publication Date: 1997-08-01
Shadows in the Field by Gregory F. Barz; Timothy J. Cooley
ISBN: 9780199717194
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Applied Ethnomusicology by Harrison
ISBN: 9781443824354
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Popular Music and Human Rights by Ian Peddie
ISBN: 9781409437581
Publication Date: 2011-08-01
Music and Globalization by Bob W. White (Editor)
ISBN: 9780253005410
Publication Date: 2011-11-24