Research Guides: Asian & Middle Eastern Studies 250: Critical Issues in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies: Cultural Products

Music

Smithsonian Global Sound
Collection of world music including "more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds."
University of Washington Instrument Collection
See and hear examples of instruments from different musical traditions.
Archives of Traditional Music
The Archives of Traditional Music is an audiovisual archive that documents music and culture from all over the world. With over 100,000 recordings that include more than 2,700 field collections, it is one of the largest university-based ethnographic sound archives in the United States

Mideastimage
Web site that includes images from middle eastern cities and information on the people, religion, design and architecture of the region.
Travelers in the Middle East Archive
The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) is a digital archive that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Includes texts, maps, photographs and hand-drawn images.
ArchNet
ArchNet is an international online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, conservationists, and scholars, with a focus on Muslim cultures and civilizations. Requires registration.
Great Buildings
Welcome to GreatBuildings, presenting 1000 classics of world architecture, and hundreds of their great designers, in the leading general architecture reference site online.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline
The Timeline is a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, as illustrated by the Museum's collection.
Flickr Commons
Digital photo collections from museums and libraries around the world. You can view the list of participating institutions online.
Wikimedia Commons
A media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language.

ArtStor This link opens in a new window
Digital images from around the world (including photography, architecture, decorative arts, graphic design, painting, and sculpture) in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. Coverage: all time periods. To download or save images create a free user account with your W&M email.