Streaming Multimedia Databases
- Films on Demand Video Collection This link opens in a new windowThousands of high quality videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.
- Music & Dance Videos from Films on DemandThe Music & Dance category in Films on Demand contains 1,825 videos broken into 5 categories: Dance, Documentaries & Live Performances, Music Appreciation, Music History, and World Music.
- Hoopla This link opens in a new windowDownloadable audio and ebooks on a variety of topics, including language learning, history, biography, classic literature, and more. Compatible with all popular e-readers. An app is available for download. Users will need to make a personal account to use this resource.
Streaming Audio
- Internet Archives (not captioned)Internet Archives is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies and music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages.
- Cylinder Preservation and Digitization ProjectThis is a resource for digital audio files of thousands of cylinder recordings available at the University of California-Santa Barbara website
- National JukeboxNational Jukebox has historic sound recordings from the Library of Congress.
- PandoraPandora is a free streaming radio to your computer. Helps you find new artists by comparing the musical structure of a song you already like.
Streaming Video
- UMO on YouTubeThis is the University's YouTube account, which features videos related to the University. This channel includes recordings of some concerts and music department events.
- Great Performances - CCGreat Performances brings the best in the performing arts from across America and around the world to a US television audience. It presents a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
- Internet Archives (not captioned)Internet Archives is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies and music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages.
Broadway: The American Musical (2004)
Ken Burns's Jazz (2000)
- Ken Burns's Jazz CollectionA study and celebration of America’s greatest original art form, Ken Burns’s ten-part documentary series opens at the dawn of the 20th century and crosses the decades with the exuberance and expressive power of jazz itself. Each episode sheds light on cultural and historical milestones as it introduces viewers to the unforgettable names and accomplishments of the music.
