Audio Licensed for UCLA
These sites are licensed by UCLA for students, faculty and staff on campus or at home via the VPN or Proxy Server. Access to non-UCLA users is on campus only.
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Avalon houses streaming audio and video collections at UCLA. Content is restricted to UCLA users and requires additional UCLA authentication for use both on and off campus via the "Sign in" link. Avalon will be unavailable from 11/12/24-11/15/24 for maintenance.
- Digital Audio Reserves
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Assigned listening for UCLA classes; each class is password protected.
- DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) This link opens in a new window
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Recordings and scholarly resources on modern and contemporary American art music ("new music").
- Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American RecordingsApproximately 40,000 recordings of music from the border regions of Mexico and the United States. These performances document many types of popular lyric songs, including the first recordings of corridos (narrative ballads on topics of the day), canciones, boleros, rancheras, and sones, including the first recordings of norteno and conjunto music.
- Music Online: American Music This link opens in a new window
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American popular song of all genres, 19th century to the 1960s. - Music Online: Classical Music Library This link opens in a new window
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Provides musical sound recordings and MIDI files, program notes, reference texts (composer biographies, history, and glossary), and images. The music includes vocal and instrumental works from the Middle Ages through to the present. Users navigate through browse lists, a search engine and music track playlists - Music Online: Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new window
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Music from all the regions of the world including 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. Complements: Smithsonian Global Sound, the collection of American traditional musics. Liner notes to the original recordings are available. - Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new window
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A virtual encyclopedia of the world musical and aural traditions, from the Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries. - Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
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Streaming audio recordings of mostly classical music from Naxos, Marco Polo, Da Capo, and several other major labels. - Naxos Music Library Jazz This link opens in a new window
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Streaming access to jazz recordings from Naxos, Fantasy, and other major labels.
Audio Freely Available
Selected free sites available to anyone, anywhere.
- Afrocentric Sounds RadioA free, online radio station featuring classical music written and/or performed by the African diaspora.
- American Folklife Center. Library of CongressAmerican vernacular songs and stories from the Library of Congress collections.
- Belfer Cylinders Digital Connection(Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive. Syracuse University) Access to 22,000 cylinder recordings.
- British Library Sounds(British Library) English accents, oral histories, drama, literature, music.
- CHARM: Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music(Royal Holloway, University of London; King's College, London; University of Sheffield) Library of "ex-copyright recordings," discographies, recording history, and recording analysis tool.
- Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project(UC Santa Barbara. Davidson Library. Department of Special Collections) Historical recordings before 1923 or music in all genres.
- D. K. Wilgus Folksong Collection(UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive) American folk music, stories, and and field recordings.
- Arhoolie Foundation's Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American RecordingsApproximately 40,000 recordings of music from the border regions of Mexico and the United States. These performances document many types of popular lyric songs, including the first recordings of corridos (narrative ballads on topics of the day), canciones, boleros, rancheras, and sones, including the first recordings of norteno and conjunto music.
- Global Music Archive(Vanderbilt University. Wilson Music Library) A multi-media reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas.
- Judaica Sound ArchivesThe Judaica Sound Archives is a major center for the collection, preservation and digitization of Judaica audio recordings. The JSA is located in the Wimberly Library on the Boca Raton campus of Florida Atlantic University.
- National Juke Box(Library of Congress) Historical recordings of American music in all genres.
- PhonobaseEarly gramophone records and cylinders from France and Europe.
- Virtual GramophoneFrom the Library and Archives Canada; early recordings from Canada.
Accessing Online Audio
Most sites require the use of Quicktime, Real Audio, or the Windows Media Player. Please ensure that you have the most recent version of the appropriate player downloaded.
On-Campus Access
If using a CLICC laptop or a library desktop computer, no log-in will be required to gain access to the audio resources. If using a personal computer on-campus, log-in to the UCLA wireless, in order to access the UCLA Library resources.
Off-Campus Access
Most of the links on these pages go to subscription sources which are accessible from any computer on campus. UCLA students, faculty, and staff can access these sites from off-campus using either the Proxy Server (a simple setting in your browser) or the VPN Client (a program you install on your computer).