With jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical
expression represented, African American Song is the first online
resource to document the history of African American music in the form
of an online music listening service. Users search using a powerful
interface, identify the music and performances they want to hear, and
click to listen through speakers or headphones.African American Song will contain at completion 50,000 audio
tracks, including collections of recordings by the fifty top names in
the history of black American music. Premier artists such as Ma Rainey,
Lead Belly, Mahalia Jackson, Alberta Hunter, Tampa Red, and William
"Bunk" Johnson are some of the many artists showcased within the
database.
At least 5,000 tracks will be rare or never-before-published. The
other tracks will be in-copyright and licensed from various labels.
The entire available catalog of Document Records—the world’s largest
collection of rare and vintage blues, jazz, gospel, spiritual,
boogie-woogie, and country recordings—will be included in the database.
The service incorporates key teaching tools designed to help direct
students toward course-related music:
- Course Folders: Librarians and educators can organize and
share course music with students in a secure and simple way. This
tool can either tie in with an existing digital audio reserve or be
used as a standalone access point.
- Static URLs: All Course Folders and individual recordings
reside at permanent URLs that can be sent to students by email or
posted to online teaching applications like Blackboard or WebCT.
- Custom playlists: All users can create and save their own
password-protected playlists.
African American Song uses its own audio player and does not
require a 3rd party player like RealPlayer or Windows Media
Player.
You can access African American Song from anywhere with a valid APSU ID.
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