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Archives of Ethnomusicology-related sound and video recordings, and ethnographic documents. See also Arts/Music/Musicology/Ethnomusicology/Museums for Ethnomusicology museums.

Resources in This Category

• Archive of Folk Culture Collections

  http://www.loc.gov/folklife/archive.html
  From The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Information, links to online publications and guides to the collections.

• Archive of World Music - Harvard College Library

  http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/loebmusic/collections/archive.html
  Contains large collections of print works and recordings from Turkey, South India, and of Byzantine chant, in addition to other holdings.

• Archives of African American Music and Culture

  http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/
  Materials held by Indiana University covering various musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. Includes a searchable database and publications listing.

• Archives of Traditional Music

  http://www.indiana.edu/~libarchm/
  General information about the Indiana University Archives, including listings of journal contents and a searchable archive database.

• Global Music Archive - Vanderbilt University

  http://www.globalmusicarchive.org/
  A multimedia reference archive and resource center for traditional and popular song, music, and dance of Africa and the Americas. Includes bibliographies, searchable collections, and publications.

• Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

  http://www.folklife.si.edu/archives_resources/about.aspx
  The Smithsonian archives house the Moses and Frances Asch collection, consisting of the entirety of Folkways Records, and the Rinzler Archives, consisting of the written, audio, and visual records of projects and exhibits sponsored by the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, including the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Contains general collections and grant information

• Southern Mosaic

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html
  The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip is a multi-format ethnographic field collection including nearly 700 sound recordings (102 of which are performed in Spanish), fieldnotes, dust jackets, and other manuscripts documenting a three-month, 6,502 mile trip through the Southern United States collecting folksongs. Includes a virtual journal of the trip, with text, pictures and sound.

• The British Library Sound Archive

  http://cadensa.bl.uk/cgi-bin/webcat
  A search engine for world music recordings with RealAudio samples, as well as links to other world music archives in the UK.

• UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive

  http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive/
  Includes sound recordings of folk, ethnic, and non-western classical music, a description of their archival techniques, and listing of current collections.

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