Netlibrary eAudiobook Center (UNCA users only)
Broad collection of downloadable audiobooks.
Naxos Music Library (UNCA users
only)
Classical music service featuring more than 140,000 tracks from the Naxos label and other leading independent labels. Broadband required for CD-quality sound (128 Kbps).
Classical Music Library (UNCA users only)
Fully searchable music resource from Medieval to contemporary, from
choral works to symphonies, operas and the avant-garde. Includes recordings
from more than 30 music labels. Alexander Street Press.
Lift Every Voice: Music in American Life
An exploration of the history of the ballads, hymns, spirituals, patriotic odes, minstrel and musical works, and protest songs of the United States.
Internet Archive -- Audio Resources
Listing of audio repositories, including the Live Music Archive, Open Source Audio, and Presidential Recordings.
Red Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz Before 1930
Site documenting the early years of jazz music, from its origins "sometime around 1895 in New Orleans" through 1930. Includes profiles of musicians, audio of original recordings, photographs, discographies, filmographies, and essays.
LION's Poets On Screen (UNCA users only)
Contains 855 video clips of poets reading their own and other poets' work.
The Poetry Archive
Listen to the voices of contemporary English-language poets and of poets from the past
reading their own work.
Powell's Bookcast
interviews with contemporary authors, news and commentary on the book world, and short readings
Netlibrary's
Pimsleur Foreign Language Collection (UNCA users only)
Audio instruction series with short and long courses in over 30 languages.
American Memory Sound Recordings from the Library of Congress
A digital record of the American experience. Hear Southern Appalachian fiddle tunes, slave narratives, and Presidential Inaugurations.
Holocaust Survivors: Audio Gallery
Audio of Holocaust survivors as well as a timeline of Jewish history, primary documents, and more.
Southern Folklife Collection at UNC Chapel Hill Libraries
Audio exhibits documenting the music of our state and region.
StoryCorps
Archive of StoryCorps' effort to instruct and inspire Americans to record one another's stories in sound. Collaborative project between Sound Portraits Productions, the Library of Congress, and public radio stations nationwide.
Studs Terkel: Conversations with America
Oral history interviews conducted by Terkel.
White House Tapes: The President Calling
Recorded phone conversations of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon.
US
Government Podcasts
USA.gov's compilation of US government-produced audio programs, including
Profile America, a daily feature from the US Census Bureau
OYEZ
Hear ye, Hear ye. Searchable access to more than 2000 hours of
Supreme Court audio. A create a complete and authoritative archive
of Supreme Court audio covering the entire span from October 1955
to the present.
BBC: Audio Interviews
Archived interviews with "cultural greats of the 20th Century talking about their work."
Online Audio and Video Recordings: UC Berkeley Lectures and Events
Audio and video of interviews, speeches, lectures, and poetry readings from James Baldwin, Noam Chomsky, Margaret Mead, Michel Foucault, Malcolm X, Aldous Huxley, and others. From The Teaching Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Say It Plain: A Century Of Great African American Speeches
Features speeches by Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Mary McLeod Bethune, Dick Gregory, Fannie Lou Hamer, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Jesse Jackson, Clarence Thomas, and Barack Obama.
Also includes audio and transcripts of the accompanying radio documentary and links to related sites.
History and Politics Out Loud
Speeches from notable political figures of the twentieth century.
Asheville Citizen-Times Podcasts
Local news and commentary.
NPR
Hourly newscasts and program streams from National Public Radio.
NPR: Music
Stories, interviews, reviews, and sound files from the worlds of jazz,
classical, world, and pop.
United Nations Multimedia
Audio and video reports on international issues.
NCLIVE PBS Video Collection (UNCA users only) NEW!
Online collection of 200+ videos, including Ken Burns documentaries, as well as selected episodes from American Experience and
Frontline.
PBS also offers a FrontLine video archive.
Folkstreams.net
A National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures
streamed with essays about the traditions and filmmaking. The site includes transcriptions, study and teaching guides, suggested readings, and links to related websites.
The Internet Archive's Moving Image Archive
This library contains thousands of digital movies, films, and videos which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to videos of every genre uploaded by Archive users. Most of these movies are available for download.
Particularly notable is the Prelinger Archive of over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films.
TED Talks
Nearly 200 videos of "the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes)." Videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.