Audio/Music
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Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound.
All but Forgotten Oldies
A searchable database of sound clips for over 4000 songs from 1960-1975 which can be browsed both by performing artist and by song title. Over 1200 bands and artists are featured.
Popular American Sheet Music
Download popular American sheet music at this digital archive from UCLA. Most of the music available is from the 1920's and is in the form that it was originally published.
John James Audubon
Audubon was a famous painter of birds in the Americas. His paintings have been placed in flash movies with original music. The site also has a catalog of over 400 of Audubon's paintings.
VoiceThread
A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish.
BBC History: Audio and Video
An archive of video and audio clips from BBC History Programs. The website explores topics from the Vikings to Egypt, all through audio and video.
Nosalgia Central
A website full of information and pictures on nosalgic items from the 1960's 70's and 80's. From pop culture, to music, to tevevison, to movies, this site has it all.
Engineering and the Guitar
Interesting series on the acoustic guitar and the sound engineering behind it.
MASSIVE Science Music Search
Search from 1700 math and science songs, such as "Rock 'n Roar Dinosaurs" or "Biomes," many of which have a recording to go along with.
Free Loops
This site has lots of free loops which you can take and create your own tracks with. Lots of file types, more loops added every day.
Bonus Links
The Flint Sit-Down Strike
An audio gallery of taped interviews from the 1936 Flint Sit-Down Strike participants.
Earth-Science
The complexity of the Earth system, in which spatial and temporal variability exists on a range of scales, requires that an organized scientific approach be developed for addressing the complex, interdisciplinary problems that exist, taking good care that in doing so there is a recognition of the objective to integrate science across the programmatic elements towards a comprehensive understanding of the Earth system.
Hippo Beach
Great website developed by PBS that explores hippos through pictures, games, video, text and interviews.
Music Software Tutorials
A collection of links on music creation articles. Read an artist's account of how they compose their music and do a step by step walkthrough of making a music video.
American Rhetoric
A database of the text, audio, and sometimes even video of the top 100 speeches given by people in America. You can also read speeches about 9-11 and there is even a section on speeches given in movies.