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.
Archive of Folk Culture Collections - From The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Information, links to online publications and guides to the collections.
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.
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.
Archives of Traditional Music - General information about the Indiana University Archives, including listings of journal contents and a searchable archive database.
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 Includes a discography of their published CDs, and a searchable catalog of published and unpublished recordings.
Library African Music - International Library of African Music with over 40,000 recordings. Includes a searchable index, as well as sound samples of African instruments.
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.
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
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.
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.
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. Includes a virtual journal of the trip, with text, pictures and sound.
UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive - The collection Includes sound recordings of folk, ethnic, and non-western classical music. Includes a selected list of current collections.
