Music

Makes historical sound recordings available to the US public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center and other libraries/archives.

Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which has granted the LoC a license to stream these recordings.

Was started in 1986 by Marji Hazen of Ashland, Ohio. Marji was particularly interested in folk music and began making a list of public domain folk songs. Over the years, the list expanded to include any PD music and Marji collected nearly 10,000 PD songs from libraries, used book stores, folk publications, and just about any other published source imaginable.

Available online, this magazine and radio program utilizes listening as a browsing element on the site, including streaming/playlists as well as clips attached to different parts of reviews by industry pros. Focuses on roots-folk music across the world, in different cultures.