1.
Illustrate
the music of an historical period, complement literature
I found this site while searching historical music streaming audio
This site offers streaming audio from multiple decades. It includes an immense amount information and audio clips. There are audio clips from the early 1900’s to the 1960’s.
http://www.rhs51.com/menu2.htm
2.
Demonstrate the music of a culture
I found this site while searching cultural music
This site offers streaming holiday music for christmas, chaunkah
and kwanzaa.
http://mp3.about.com/library/weekly/aa120902holidays.htm?terms=%22cultural+music%22
3.
Talk show segments where famous people give
their views or debate their positions
I found this site while searching streaming audio talk shows with famous people
This site is Fresh Air on-line and offers a lot of streaming audio clips of famous people and their views and positions.
http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?todayDate=current
4. Radio dramatic productions of literature
I found this site searching streaming audio radio dramatic literature
This site salon.com contains a database of streaming audio clips for types of different authors and various genre .
http://www.salon.com/audio/index.html
5. Poetry reading by actors or the poets themselves
I found this site while searching streaming audio poetry
This particular site offers links to poetry from Shakespeare to the 20th century.
http://www.creativeideasforyou.com/oral_poetry.html