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1. Archive of Folk Culture Collections

From The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Information, links to online publications and guides to the collections.

Website: http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/archive.html
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2. Archive of World Music - International Inventory of Musical Sources

Collection of commercial and field recordings of ethnic and folk musics, with an emphasis on the musics of Asia and the Middle East. Includes general information on the collection, a collection newsletter, and browsable collection databases.

Website: http://rism.stub.uni-frankfurt.de/index_e.htm
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3. Archives of African American Music and Culture

Repository of materials covering various musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. Includes a searchable database and publications listing.

Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/index2.html
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4. Archives of Traditional Music

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

Website: http://www.indiana.edu/~libarchm/
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5. Early American Secular Music and its European Sources

Searchable index of sources for early American and European music, covering the years from 1589-1839.

Website: http://www.colonialdancing.org/Easmes/
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6. International Music Collections

The collection at the British Library includes recordings variously described as traditional, folk or 'world' music. The site includes a discography of their published CDs, and a searchable catalog of published and unpublished recordings.

Website: http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/imc.html
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7. Library African Music

International Library of African Music contains over 40,000 recordings. The site includes a searchable index, as well as sound samples of African instruments.

Website: http://ilam.ru.ac.za
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8. 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.

Website: http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/nsa.html
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9. Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers

Database and index of newspaper articles from 1690-1783.

Website: http://www.universitymusicedition.com/Performing_Arts/
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10. 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 Folklife and Cultural Heritage, including the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Contains general collections and grant information

Website: http://www.folklife.si.edu/center/archives.html
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11. 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 the manuscript and sound recording holdings.

Website: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/
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12. 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-month, 6,502 mile trip through the Southern United States collecting folksongs. Contains a virtual journal of the trip, with text, pictures and sound.

Website: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html
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13. UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive

The collection includes sound recordings of folk, ethnic, and non-western classical music. The site includes a selected list of current collections.

Website: http://www.ethnomusic.ucla.edu/archive/
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14. Wesleyan World Music Archives

Basic information on the collection and staff.

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