Foreign Languages

Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings is comprised of more than 60 field collections from ethnomusicologists dating from the mid-twentieth century to the early twenty-first century. Produced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, this resource also features material from the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archive relating to ethnomusicologist Robert Garfias.

The audio recordings, videos, field notebooks, and journals in this resource document musical traditions and how music interacts with different societies and cultures all over the globe. There are recordings from Alaska to the Pacific Islands, West Africa to Indonesia, including religious music, secular music, celebrations, and funerals. There are interviews with musicians, slides, and photographs of field sites and photographs of instruments being played and in isolation.

This resource provides a wealth of materials for the interdisciplinary study of ethnomusicology; whether the focus is on music, anthropology, dance, religion, or spirituality.

Tips for using this collection are available in the Adam Matthew Digital Help Centre.

Includes 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.

Smithsonian Global Sound, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. It includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It contains over 40,000 tracks of ethnic music from around the world.

Kanopy Streaming offers a variety of documentary and feature films from an array of producers and distributors including BBC Active, California Newsreel, Checkerboard Films, Criterion Collection/Janus films, Documentary Educational Resources, First Run Features, Green Planet Films, Kino Lorber Edu, Media Education Foundation, National Film Board of Canada, PBS, Psychotherapy.net, and the DEFA Film Library's (East) German Film Collection.

All videos work on PCs with Flash, iPads, iPhones, and mobile devices. To facilitate teaching, they can be projected in lecture halls, embedded in authenticated web pages, and watched off-campus (with login) with unlimited simultaneous viewers. Users can also create Playlists and make clips.

Features independent distributors Zeitgeist Films, Pragda, Milestone, and Oscilloscope. Includes feature films, animated films, and documentaries.

Asian Film Online is an online streaming video collection of nearly 600 feature films, documentaries and shorts. Twenty-four countries across Asia are represented, with strong concentration on China, India, Iran, South Korea, and Southeast Asia.

All films are indexed by filmmaker, country, language, original language, genre and theme. Subtitles and synopses are provided for all films.

Films and clips can be saved to a playlist and shared with others in the UM-Flint community.

This collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture, and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, East Germany, Great Britain, and Cuba.

Tips for using this collection are available in the Adam Matthew Digital Help Centre.