Ethnomusicology

A vast collection of music streaming files. American Music includes contemporary folk/roots/Americana music, early rock & roll, soul, funk, R&B, doo-wop, boogie-woogie, early Biograph recordings, blues, jazz, gospel, spirituals, disco, blues-rock, reggae, bluegrass, country, rockabilly, and honky-tonk.

Streaming (64K and 20K) classical music service that provides access to a collection of nearly 76,000 CDs. Offers the complete catalog of Naxos recordings, including the Naxos, Marco Polo, and DaCapo catalogs, plus jazz and world music. Also available are online texts of opera synopses, librettos, and a pronunciation guide. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month.Please note: Limited to 11 simultaneous users.

Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries is a virtual collection of the world's musical and aural traditions. Comprised of thousands tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds, this streaming encyclopedia provides listeners with a variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.

Academic Video Online, or AVON, delivers video titles on subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, theatre, dance, and more.

We subscribe to the World Cinema Collection. Films on Demand is also host to several individual streaming files, including our Appalshop collection. We no longer have access to the wider Films on Demand Collection.

Streaming media service that provides films documentaries for viewing from a variety of devices. A limited number of the films are currently available to the UK community on the kanopy platform.

Indicate you are affiliated with University of Kentucky if asked. If you Sign Up for an account (upper right-hand corner), it will recognize your affiliation. If you attempt to view a film for which we have no subscription, you will be taken to a "recommend feature" that will let you let us know you are interested in our acquiring access to that film. Please include your role at the University and reason for suggesting the film.

Streaming access to thousands of classical music, opera, and dance videos; includes filmed musicals since the 1940s, filmed concerts, documentaries, masterclasses, and live broadcasts. Also contains synopses, casts, and performers' biographies.

Streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries; includes full-length videos. You can create custom clips, edit them and add them to individual playlists. Search videos by category, role, composer, artist, production personnel, work, venue or festival. Libretto/text is included when available. Please note: Limited to two simultaneous users.

Contains more than 250 filmed original productions as streaming video, many captured and recorded while performed for a live theatre audience. Also includes more than 100 film documentaries. Includes the BBC Shakespeare Collection. The collection begins in the 1930s. Both Broadway and off-Broadway productions are represented in each decade.