For the U.N.’s World Water Day, a gift:
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries is the largest and most comprehensive streaming audio collection of world music. It currently provides streaming access to over 44,000 tracks from the Smithsonian archives and world music archives in Asia and Africa. It includes
- Music from 169 countries from around the world
- Over 1,000 distinct genres and sub-genres
- Over 1,400 cultural groups
- Over 450 languages
- Data on 100,000s of artists and ensembles