Find Audio and Music Video or Films @ BU
Click the image of BU Library Search for our general catalog which includes media links. Additional streaming media packages below are rich in music and dance connections to Africa.
- Ethnomusicology in collaboration with UCLAProduced in collaboration with the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive, the material in this collection includes thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera from over 60 fields of study
- Ethnographic Sound Archives Online This link opens in a new window Ethnographic Sound Archives Online brings together over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers' metadata, opening new paths for the study of music in its cultural context.
- Ethnographic Video Online, Royal Anthropological Institute Teaching Edition This link opens in a new window Contains a curriculum-aligned collection of videos and segments curated to support the teaching of introductory anthropology courses. Each video and segment within this collection are accompanied by a teaching guide providing background information, lesson plans, and classroom exercises and activities.
- Ethnographic Video Online, Volume I-II: Foundational Films This link opens in a new window Contains classic and contemporary ethnographies, documentaries and shorts from every continent, providing teachers visual support to introduce and contextualize hundreds of cultural groups and practices around the world.
- Ethnographic Video Online, Volume IV: Festivals and Archives This link opens in a new window Contains award-winning titles from contemporary ethnographic film festivals. The collection also includes field recordings and edited films by students and faculty from universities and institutions around the world, including Berkeley Media and Manchester's Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology.
- Ethnographic Video Online, Volume III: Indigenous Voices This link opens in a new window Contains documentaries, feature films and shorts made by and for indigenous people and communities. Topics are simultaneously local and global, with particular emphasis on the human effects of climate change, sustainability, indigenous and local ways of interpreting history, cultural change, and traditional knowledge and storytelling.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowStreaming video, contemporary and international in scope; includes captions, transcripts
- Music & Performing Arts (Audio and Video Collections)Traditional, popular, and contemporary world. Includes Hugh Tracy's ILAM (International Library of African Music) project, Smithsonian Global Sound, and articles in the Garland Encylopedia of World Music are concurrently searched and retrieved.
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
- Semester update for: BU Krasker Film/Media Services CatalogFaculty please note: krasfilm@bu.edu will respond to your streaming purchase requests. All users: reservations for on site class or viewing room use of physical video formats are currently suspended.
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Find Audio and Music Video, and more, beyond BU
- African Music SafariDiscover Africa Music - One Country at a Time
African Tribal Music and Modern Genres - African Media ProjectA project of the African Studies Center at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. AMP provides an on-line comprehensive reference guide to more than 10,000 films, videos, and other audiovisual materials concerning Africa (both Sub-Saharan and North Africa). It includes film and video productions made in Africa and around the world.
- Wax & GoldIn “Wax & Gold,” director Britton Caillouette of Farm League, uses the country’s rich tradition of music to contextualize the shared histories and traditions of the people, the culture, and their most famous beverage.
Shot on multiple film formats and using a tapestry of sounds, Caillouette weaves together these expressive elements with interviews from luminaries including Ethio-jazz icon Mulatu Astatke and coffee producer Haile Gebre from Ethiopia’s Mordecofe to create an immersive non-fiction experience. The film, like the country, is vast and textured and full of surprises. Each scene stands on its own, but collectively, the contrasting ideas build a fuller, richer and more honest portrait of Ethiopia.
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Rachel Dwyer
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6th floor,
Mugar Memorial Library
Mon-Fri 9am - 5 pm
rdwyer@bu.edu
617-353-3726
Subjects: African Studies