Library: Music and Sound: Useful websites and links

BoB

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is ashared online off-air TV and radio recording service which enables all staff and students from Staffordshire University to choose and record any broadcast programme from 60+ TV and radio channels. The recorded programmes are then kept indefinitely (no expiry) and added to a growing media archive, currently at over 1 million programmes.

A link to a few selected programmes featuring sound and music
Jazz on BBC-TV This playlist showcases the variety of jazz on BBC channels, from the 1960s to the present day. Programme types include: dedicated jazz performance; variety entertainments; drama; documentary; schools; and even comedy! The playlist has been sequenced chronologically by production date. As well as giving an insight into developments in the music over this sixty-year period, this playlist also tracks changing attitudes towards jazz at the BBC.
Classical Music in Film: BoB playlist
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This is a playlist of clips that illustrate various manners and effects of classical music’s use in film. The playlist begins with nondiegetic uses of classical music, before moving to examples of characters interacting with diegetic classical music, and finally to clips from films in which classical music is the focus.
How to use BoB Video guides on how to search, clip and extract content from BoB
BoB Frequently Asked Questions

Some external websites for music and sound

Music and sound