Research Guides: Dance: Find Audio Sources

Streaming Audio Collections available from MSU

Sprague Library has licensed access to streaming audio from these collections. Access to these sound recordings are MSU Restricted, so to listen to them you must either be on campus or logged in with via the MSU proxy server:

Naxos Music Library
Streaming audio collection of classical, jazz, world, folk & Chinese music.

Free Sites

Irish Traditional Music Archive
Sample sound recordings for the personal enjoyment and interest of users. They represent only a small proportion of the sound recordings of Irish music held for public access in the Archive. They may not be used for commercial purposes.
Internet Archive Audio Archive
Audio & MP3 recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many are available for free download.
Freesound Project
Collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs.
UC Berkeley Media Resources Center Online Media
A collection online video & audio recordings of notable lectures, events & readings held at University of California, Berkeley. Audio recordings in the collection are accessible by all users.
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Linked from within this site are audio, video, and text files from the UC Berkeley Library Social Activism Sound Recording Project. This collection includes information on the Free Speech Movement, the Black Panther Party, Anti-Vietnam War Protests in the San Francisco Area & Beyond & LGBT History.
PartnersInRhyme
A catalog of royalty free music & sound effects to download and use in commercial projects.
National Jukebox LOC.gov
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.

Audio Books

LibriVox
Free audiobooks from the public domain, with several options for listening.
LeranOutLoud
This directory features free audio & video titles. Includes audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and many other free audio and video resources. Most audio titles can be downloaded in digital formats such as MP3 and most video titles are available to stream online.

Free Music Download Sites

Sibley Music Library (U of Rochester): Musical Scores
The University of Rochester's Sibley Music Library is engaged in an NEH project to digitize its public-domain music scores.
National Jukebox LOC.gov
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.

Disclaimer

Sprague Library is not responsible for any of the content linked from these sites. We cannot guarantee availability of the content they provide, nor assume responsibility for the functionality of these sites.