Finding Recordings

Music recordings

African American Song
A fully searchable collection of recordings covering jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression.

American Song
A history database that allows you to hear and feel the music from America's past: songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys, as well as songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.

Classical Music Library
A fully searchable collection of tens of thousands of distinguished classical recordings, cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. The recordings range from Medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde.

Smithsonian Global Sound
A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.

Naropa University recordings

The Naropa audio tape collection consists of over six thousand tapes of events at Naropa University over its thirty year life span. These tapes record seminal events in the world of education and the arts, including important writers, teachers, and religious leaders. The collection grows every year, as new conferences, the Summer Writing Program, and visiting faculty workshops and lectures are recorded and added to the collections. Many of these tapes have been digitized by the Naropa Audio Archive Project and can be accessed at online at the Internet Archive.

The Naropa video tape collection includes over 1000 videos of Naropa events, including readings, theater productions, lectures, graduations, and student performances. The collection continues to expand.

Binders in the library list the audio and video tapes. In addition, tapes digitized by the Audio Archive Project can be found in HOWLcat, the library catalog. Select "archival audio materials" in the Type drop down menu to limit your search to digitized materials.

Chogyam Trungpa recordings

The library has a collection of Chogyam Trungpa videorecordings available for checkout. A binder with information about the recordings is available at the circulation desk.

Audio and video recordings of Chogyam Trungpa, including some of events that took place at Naropa, may be purchased from the Shambhala Shop by going to their website at http://www.shambhalashop.com/.