Music & Performing Arts combines music audio and video that spans all time periods, and includes hundreds of thousands of seminal artists.
Every object in the collection is indexed for subjects, historical events, genres, people, cultural groups, places, time periods, ensembles. Music & Performing Arts is an online music resource that cross-searches all of University Libraries' Alexander Street Press music databases. Included sections are:
- American Song
- Classical Music Library
- Contemporary World Music
- Jazz Music Library
- Popular Music Library
- Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries