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Music Online for Public Libraries offers 160,000 selections of music to listen to at home
over the Internet through speaker or headphones. The selections include:
- Classical music ranging from Medieval to contemporary, from choral works to
symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde.
- American Folk Music covering icons such as Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and hundreds of others; freedom and protest songs from the Civil Rights
era; the music of every cultural group, from Cajun to Alaskan; Ella Jenkins's children's songs; and music to represent America 's entire history.
- World music including traditional music from more than 150 countries— nations' histories in song; counting games, childhood songs, holiday tunes, stories, and
sing-alongs from around the world; and more.
- Spoken word and sounds including artists such as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Dubois, Mahalia Jackson, Sterling Brown, and others performing their own works;
political speeches; oral histories; biographies; sounds of the rainforest and of the galaxies; and more.
- African American music covering every form (blues, jazz, gospel, etc.) with recordings by the fifty top names in the history of black American music—artists
such as Ma Rainey, Lead Belly, Mahalia Jackson, Alberta Hunter, Tampa Red, William "Bunk" Johnson, Duke Ellington, Sophie Tucker, Joe Turner, T-Bone
Walker, Sarah Vaughn, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Big Joe Williams, Memphis Jug Band, Roosevelt Sykes, Dizzy Gillespie, Chicago River Kings, Muddy Waters, Skip
James, Blind Willie McTell, Lonnie Johnson, Alberta Jones, Johnny Shines, and Memphis Minnie, to name a few.
Listening is easy. Login using your Cranston Public Library card. Users may browse,
search, click, and then listen to the music through speakers or their headphones. You can even create personal, password-protected play lists.
Classical Music Library
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
African American Song
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