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Smithsonian Institution Plans MP3 Music Store

Yahoo News - Techweb

Thursday 7 April 2005, 5:47 pm
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A new MP3 project, Smithsonian Global Sound, is planned for formal launching at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in June. Initially, the service--which plans to charge 99 cents a song--will offer tracks from the Smithsonian's Folkways Recordings archives. The archives comprise a broad array of music with American roots, including Woody Guthrie songs and songs from the civil rights movement.

"Smithsonian Global Sound is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical traditions, available through a website that offers digital downloads," the Smithsonian announcement states. "Its purposes are to make diverse cultural expressions broadly accessible to the public in an educational way."

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