CDs & DVDs
Video and audio collections are on the second floor and include large music collection (on CD and vinyl) as well as feature films and documentaries. These can be borrowed. Viewing & listening facilities are also on the 2nd floor.
Sound and Audiovisual Databases (Streaming)
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new windowNaxos Music Library is the world´s largest online streaming library of classical music. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 129,810 CDs with more than 1,985,900 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month. Please log out after use as our license only permits seven simultaneous users.
Not in Library Search - Association for Cultural Equity This link opens in a new windowA free online archive of sound recordings, radio, photographs, video and other resources related to traditional music and creative heritage. The Association for Cultural Equity (ACE) was founded by Alan Lomax with the mission is to stimulate cultural equity through preservation, research, and dissemination of the world's traditional music, and to reconnect people and communities with their creative heritage. The Sound Recordings catalogue comprises over 17,400 digital audio files, beginning with Lomax’s first recordings onto (newly invented) tape in 1946 and tracing his career into the 1990s.
Not in Library Search - British Library Sounds This link opens in a new windowListen to a selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds. Most items are open access but some require a Goldsmiths login.
Not in Library Search - Independent Radio This link opens in a new windowThree projects which bring together the archives of Independent Local Radio from 1973 to 1976. Includes thousands of hours of content available online.
Not in Library Search - Music Online: American Music This link opens in a new windowMusic Online: American Music is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.
In Library Search - Music Online: Classical Music Library This link opens in a new windowMusic Online: Classical Music Library covers all major genres and time periods from medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde. In Library Search
- Music Online: Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new windowMusic Online: Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. In Library Search
- Music Online: Jazz Music Library This link opens in a new windowMusic Online: Jazz Music Library is the largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres. In Library Search
- Music Online: Listening This link opens in a new windowMusic Online: Listening is a multidisciplinary collection of audiovisual content that touches on the curriculum needs of virtually every department. Music Online: Listening allows students and researchers alike to analyze unique and valuable content from over 500 producers and distributors around the world.
Not in Library Search - Music Online: Popular Music Library This link opens in a new windowMusic Online: Popular Music Library from Alexander Street contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more.
Not in Library Search - Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries This link opens in a new windowMusic Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. In Library Search
- Ethnographic Video Online: Vols.1-2 This link opens in a new windowEthnographic Video Online is a comprehensive online resource for the study of human culture, behavior and society around the world. The collections contain over 2,000 hours of streaming video, including ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork. It’s also a resource for a study of the discipline itself: By placing examples of traditional ethnographic methodologies alongside indigenous-made films representing previously overlooked perspectives, scholars, teachers and students of anthropology can gain a sense of the discipline’s history and of its future direction. In Library Search
- Music Online: Classical Music in Video This link opens in a new windowMusic Online: Classical Music in Video will contain 1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video—approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world. In Library Search
- Music Online: Opera in Video This link opens in a new windowMusic Online: Opera in Video contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. In Library Search
- Box of Broadcasts (BoB) This link opens in a new windowBoB is Learning on Screen’s on demand TV and radio service for education. Our academically-focused system allows staff and students at subscribing institutions to record programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels, and search our extensive archive.
Please note that due to licensing restrictions users can only access this resource from within the UK
Not in Library Search - Kanopy This link opens in a new windowKanopy is a streaming video service for educational institutions. Goldsmiths provide access to a small but growing collection of films.
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