Updates to Music Online
Below are the most recent updates to the family of resources known collectively as MUSIC ONLINE from Alexander Street Press.
Now get out there and do some listening! 
AMERICAN SONG
We’ve added 41 albums (600 tracks) from Amherst Records, Rebel Records, Southern Records, Tompkins Square Records and Yellow Dog Records. New material includes bluegrass, blues, funk, soul, and honky-tonk.
Highlights of the new content include fiddle music performed by late U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, songs recorded by NYC subway musicians, historical war songs from 1924-1939, and (creepy!) an album of folk-rock released by Charles Manson a year prior to his arrest.
Example albums include:
*Watermelon Slim: Big Shoes to Fill
*Max Ochs: Hooray for Another Day
*Bloody War Songs: 1924-1939
*The Pipes and Drums of the Washington Memorial Pipe Band
*NYC Subway: Songs from the Underground – New York’s Best Subway Musicians
JAZZ MUSIC LIBRARY
We’ve added 53 albums (828 tracks) from Amherst Records, Malanga Music, and Yemaya. New material includes Afro-jazz, contemporary big band, swing, dixieland, Latin jazz, and more.
Example new albums include:
*Hot Club of Philadelphia: Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
*Orquesta Cubana de Musica Moderna
*Arturo Sandoval: Live at the Hotel Nacional, Havana, 1986
*Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the Jazz Plaza Festival, 1985
*Spyro Gyra: Carnaval
*Della Reese: The Angel Sings
CONTEMPORARY WORLD MUSIC
We’ve added 41 albums (495 tracks) from ARC Music, Blue Flame Records, Lyrichord, and Six Degrees Records. New material includes ambient dub, African drumming, drinking songs, Nu-Jazz, rumba, world beat, sephardic, song and more.
Example albums include:
*Gamelan of Java, Vol. 4: Puspa Warna
*DJ Cam: Loa Project, Vol. 2
*Timna Brauer & Elias Mieri Ensemble: Flamenco Judaico
*Master Drummers of Africa, Vol. 2: Ubuntu
*New Zealand’s Maoris: Unknown Earth
*Kix (Bent Remixes)
The total content count for Music Online now equals:
692,652 tracks
89,671 pages text reference
24,368 scores (400,000 pages)
488 videos
