Jazz Appreciation Month (April): Listen

A music collection of over 40,400 albums (more than 558,800 tracks) from America’s past and present, including songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Songs on Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and anti-war protests are represented.

This collection of contemporary and traditional world music recordings includes over 134,000 albums (more than 1,693,000 tracks) covering genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.

A comprehensive collection of streaming audio jazz recordings (over 40,600 albums and 608,200 tracks) available online—-with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.

Produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, this is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions which contains over 3,000 albums and 43,900 tracks, providing users with a variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.