Archives

» African Music Archive
   A history and general information on the archive at Johannes Gutenburg University, located in Mainz, Germany. The archive publishes NTAMA - The Journal of African Music and Popular Culture. In English and German.

   
   http://ntama.uni-mainz.de/ama/

» Archive of Folk Culture Collections
   From The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Information, links to online publications and guides to the collections.

   
   http://www.loc.gov/folklife/archive.html

» Archive of World Music - Harvard College Library
   Contains large collections of print works and recordings from Turkey, South India, and of Byzantine chant, in addition to other holdings.

   
   http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/loebmusic/collections/archive.html

» Archives of African American Music and Culture
   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.

   
   http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/

» Archives of Traditional Music
   General information about the Indiana University Archives, including listings of journal contents and a searchable archive database.

   
   http://www.indiana.edu/~libarchm/

» Early American Secular Music and its European Sources
   Searchable index of sources for early American and European music, covering the years from 1589-1839.

   
   http://www.colonialdancing.org/Easmes/

» Global Music Archive - Vanderbilt University
   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.

   
   http://www.globalmusicarchive.org/

» International Library of African Music (ILAM)
   Contains over 40,000 recordings. Includes a searchable index, publications, and sound samples of African instruments.

   
   http://ilam.ru.ac.za/

» International Music Collections
   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 Includes a discography of their published CDs, and a searchable catalog of published and unpublished recordings.

   
   http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/imc.html

» National Sound Archive International Music Collection
   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.

   
   http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/nsa.html

» Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
   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 Folkl

   
   http://www.folklife.si.edu/center/archives.html

» 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.

   
   http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/

» Southern Folklife Collection
   These holdings, at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, document all forms of Southern musical and oral traditions across the entire spectrum of individual and community expressive arts, as well as mainstream media production. Generally describes

   
   http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/

» Southern Mosaic
   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-

   
   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html

» UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive
   Includes sound recordings of folk, ethnic, and non-western classical music, a description of their archival techniques, and listing of current collections.

   
   http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive/

» Wesleyan World Music Archives
   Basic information on the collection and staff.

   
   http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/srhome/srwma.htm