Subject Guide » Music: World Music Research Tips
Books, Scores, Recordings, Videos
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WestCat WestCat is WMU's online library catalog. It can be used to identify books (including online books), government documents, journals, videos, sound recordings, slides and other items that the University Libraries has in its collections. WestCat can be searched by title, author, subject heading, keyword, call number, and more.
Finding Music in WestCatA guide to finding scores and recordings in the library using WestCat. How to form searches, use limits, interpret results, and avoid some common mistakes.
Contemporary World Music Explore music from all regions and from every continent: reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Arab swing, African film, Bollywood, Indian classical, flamenco, klezmer, gospel, gagaku, and more. Current release has about 6,000 tracks; a total of 50,000 is planned.
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.
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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.