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Archives of Traditional Music
· iweb · cached · General information about the Indiana University Archives, including listings of journal contents and a searchable archive database.
Southern Mosaic
· cached · 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.
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive
· cached · Includes sound recordings of folk, ethnic, and non-western classical music, a description of their archival techniques, and listing of current collections.
International Library of African Music
· iweb · cached · Research institution devoted to the study of African music and the oral arts in Africa. Includes over 40,000 recorded items, online library, and some recordings for sale.
Southern Folklife Collection
· cached · An introduction to online cultural resources offered by the Manuscripts Department, Academic Affairs Libraries, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: finding aids and guides, databases, photographs, sound recordings, and exhibits.
International Music Collections
· cached · The collection at the British Library Includes recordings variously described as traditional, folk or 'world' music. Includes a discography of their published CDs, and a searchable catalog of published and unpublished recordings.
Wesleyan World Music Archives
· cached · Basic information on the collection and staff.
African Music Archive
· iweb · cached · Focuses primarily on contemporary music. Includes projects and a directory of links. [English/German]
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
· cached · 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
National Sound Archive International Music Collection
· cached · The British Library National Sound Archive contains lists of world music recordings with RealAudio samples, as well as links to other world music archives in the UK.
Smithsonian Global Sound
· Digital downloads of music and sound from around the world, including educational content. Includes free previews of content from the Smithsonian/Folkways world music catalogue.
The African American Music and Culture Archives at Indiana University
· cached · A guide to Indiana University's research center archives.
Early American Secular Music and Its European Sources, 1589-1839: An Index
· cached · A series of primary source indexes covering the early history of the United States. Entries searchable and sorted by text (titles, first lines, recitatives, chorus and burden), by music incipits (represented in scale degrees, stressed notes and interval sequences), with additional indexes of names and theater works. A project of the Colonial Music Institute.
Archive of Folk Culture Collections
· iweb · cached · 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
· iweb · cached · Contains large collections of print works and recordings from Turkey, South India, and of Byzantine chant, in addition to other holdings.
Global Music Archive - Vanderbilt University
· cached · 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.
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