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You don't need a dime for this jukebox
You don't need a dime for this jukebox
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The Library of Congress has opened up its music collection online (well, at least part of the public domain collection is online), and wrapped a playlist function around the files. They're calling this service http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/]The National Jukebox.

Plenty of ragtime and some opera at the moment, but they're promising to add more music...

Edit: Oh, I love this site already. Under http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/genres]Genres:
Quote:Ethnic characterizations

This heading is used for works that incorporate ethnic or regional groups as subject matter. Text and music may involve characters and/or musical elements that reflect attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs associated with ethnic and regional groups at the time the selections were written and performed. These characterizations may utilize outmoded and offensive stereotypes of nationalities, religions, or races.

Find Ethnic characterizations recordings
This hints they're not going to "forget" to put something up just because it uses a word we find offensive nowadays.
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Rob Kelk
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them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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You don't need a dime for this jukebox - by robkelk - 05-14-2011, 12:27 AM
[No subject] - by sweno - 05-14-2011, 01:24 AM
[No subject] - by LynnInDenver - 05-14-2011, 01:39 AM

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