Music: World Music Research Tips Subject Guide
Books, Scores, Recordings, Videos
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Classic Library Catalog WMU's Classic online catalog (also known as WestCat), is used to identify books (including electronic books), government documents, journals, audio and video, slides, music scores, and other items in the University Libraries' collections. The catalog can be searched by title, author, subject heading, keyword, call number, and more.
New Library CatalogIn 2009 we added a new interface to our catalog. It still identifies books (including online books), journal titles, government documents, music, videos, maps, and other items in the University Libraries. It can still be searched by title, author, subject, but now you can choose the format and location in your first search. There are easy ways of narrowing your search in the left column, it offers "did you mean" spelling, favorite lists, and lets you tag items with your own labels.
Contemporary World Music Explore music from all regions and from every continent in this audio streaming database: reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Arab swing, African film, Bollywood, Indian classical, flamenco, klezmer, gospel, gagaku, and more. Over 20,000 tracks.
Smithsonian Global Sound More than 35,000 tracks of music and other sound, including American folk and blues idioms, American Indian, world music, jazz, children's songs, historical spoken word, and many natural and human-made sounds. Browse the collections, search for specific recordings, create playlists.
Librarian's Comment: Use the Advanced Search to combine terms such as countries, geographical regions, ethnic groups, names of instruments, and the term music or folk music.
BOOKS ON WORLD MUSIC ARE AT THESE CALL NUMBERS: Africa, ML 350; Asia, ML 330-345; Arab countries, ML 348; Australia and Oceania, ML 360; Europe, ML 240-325; Central America, ML 330; North America, ML 200-215; South America, ML 199, 230-239.