If you’re interested in that broadest of all musical categories, “world music,” you won’t find a better site than Smithsonian Global Sound, which contains 40,000 tracks from the Smithsonian Folkways archives. Albums and individual songs are available for purchase and download. For Black History Month, Global Sound offers free videos, music, and spoken-word recordings. Lesson plans and student activities are included.
Heritage Month on Smithsonian Global Sound